In the summer of 2012, the Wrangell Mountains Center with the help of the Rasmuson Foundation expanded its traditional writing workshop to include performance and visual arts. I worked with…
Summer is moving along at a pleasant pace. I wish I were working faster, but life with three boys in an off the grid cabin is, well, slow going. The…
It’s curious how time gets away when you are living off the grid. Simple chores in the city become day long activities in the woods. Its been a full two…
On Sunday, the kids and I participated in a Wrangell Mountains Center (WMC) program with artist Kristin Link. All summer long, the WMC offers a selection of artsy programing to…
This is the calm before the chaos on morning number two. And ten in the morning stitchers start sewing, and they don’t stop until we turn the power off some…
On Saturday morning, I hauled all my supplies over to the Old Hardware Store, home of the Wrangell Mountains Center to begin the first day of Sew Fun. Sew Fun…
In less than a week, I will host a new stitching workshop out in McCarthy, Alaska called Sew Fun. The class is from ten in the morning until eight at…
As my last blog post shows, I heart McCarthy, Alaska and the Wrangell Mountains Center (WMC). Since my first visit to the Wrangells to take a writing workshop with Nancy…
In 2001, I traveled from Valdez, Alaska to McCarthy, Alaska to take a week long writing workshop at the Wrangell Mountains Center. That week of writing in the Wrangells changed…