Category: Places

  • Returning Home

    Dreams of home become reality and I will be heading back to Alaska in June. I am heeding the call of the Brooks Range and will be backpacking in the Romanzof Mountains for awhile. My spirit, my being, has become tarnished and lost in the daily chaos and chosen lifestyle. A remote expedition is sorely…

  • Alaskan Adventure

    This is from my friends in Alaska.  I have been on two trips with them and highly recommend them for a true Alaskan adventure.  And I do not get anything in return for this post! Tips on planning your Alaska Adventure Glacier Trekking l Ice Climbing l Muli-Sport Adventure Tours l Zipline Alaska is big.…

  • Winter’s Message

    Within the depth of winter, there is a message.  As 2013 comes to a close, we look back and look forward.  What can we do to better ourself as an individual and within the community we all are part of to some degree? Winter has blanketed the land and trees with her white wonder.  The…

  • Poem – Where Chaos Meets Clarity (by Harmony Green)

    This poem was kindly shared from the blog Daily Danspirations. Chaos clustered and coating me Bound I am to my own shortcomings I fall short in coming back around Life too long labored and languid Has loosened my resolve Clarity….come…. in your slow and hard pending birth Sparked in the friction of the frenzied feast….The…

  • Dreaming, Alaskan sunshine

    It’s been 3-months since I reluctantly returned home from Alaska.  Which is slowly becoming a second home.  Not just physically, but within my heart, soul, and mind.  The sun rising over mountains, setting behind triangular peaks, and glacial lakes surrounded by boulders, has wrapped around every thought I have and tries to influence every action.…

  • Road trip along the trans-Alaska oil pipeline

  • Mountains and Ice

    I am working on the Winter 2014 issue of Stone Path Review that will include a different kind of interview.  It will be with the owner of a mountain guide training school with locations in Alaska and Patagonia.  In doing some basic research and tailoring the interview, here are some mountaineering statistics since I love…

  • Birds – Washington, 2011

    Going through some photos from a trip 2-years ago to Washington and Mt. Rainier.  These were taken at a popular area where the birds were obviously used to being fed. Photos by Twisted Root Studios

  • Poem – Untitled War

    Sun bleached dress Vibrant orange into dull peach Days wear long upon my body Sun deepens, light spreading to my bones One last request, please A meal, a word, an exit Give me dignity and grace, allow my family a place To bring flowers and pictures and whiskey

  • Poem – The Wheat Fields

    Sun through skeleton trees illuminates the tall grass with a golden tone. The alfalfa is blooming. Autumn’s harvest moon rising against a backdrop of scattered orange and wavering purple. The warring people have drawn a line, and promised to not cross into the wheat fields, promised not to trample this sanctuary where the children play.…