After a few challenging years, I am thrilled to say I have new writing included in an upcoming exhibit "In a Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories." (Opening on Sept [...]

Photos by Eva Capozzola, who joined us on a recent training run. www.evazolaphoto.com   One year ago, in February 2016, my memoir Fast Into the Night went out into the [...]

Happy Holidays. It’s hard to believe that 2016 is only a few weeks away. For me, not only is the upcoming New Year a fresh start, it represents the momentous [...]

Today is no ordinary day. It's the Puckies ten year old birthday.   No, that’s not a typo. We fondly refer to our mighty litter of eight as the Puckies [...]

A few weeks ago I was invited to do a presentation at Anchorage’s Balto Seppala Park. Some fifty or so Turnagain Elementary School first graders would be the guests of [...]

Several times during the last few weeks, I’ve caught myself thinking that it’s already 2016. That’s because I’m so eager for the upcoming winter—the January camping trips when we run [...]

I walk out the door holding a cluster of harnesses. The instant my huskies see me, all twenty erupt in a barking yowling song.  Brie catapults to the top of [...]

  Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost, 1874-1963 (The Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949)   Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a [...]

It’s midsummer in Denali—a season of abundance. Sunlight bathes our Denali Park kennel for extended hours; even in the middle of the night we never experience complete darkness. Everything living [...]

Before sled dogs came into my life there were horses. They weren’t mine; they never lived in my backyard like our huskies do. But they mattered. With enormous hearts for [...]