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We just got some good news on this already favorite book! The Alaska Association of School Librarians has selected Patsy Ann of Alaska as a Battle of the Books choice for K-2 readers in the 2011-12 school year. If you … Continue reading →

HELLO, SANTA CLAUS HOUSE! Last week I had a fruitful time visiting three elementary schools in the Fairbanks/North Pole area, I and read Alaskan Night Before Christmas to more than a thousand children during three busy days. The kids needed … Continue reading →

-20 IN FAIRBANKS But the temps didn’t seem to bother Coco at all. She and her handler Opal Welton came over to my sister’s place for a visit, and we took turns taking pictures, of course! Coco started digging in the … Continue reading →

Alaskan Night Before Christmas (or how one selfish caribou almost wrecked Christmas for all of us!) If you’ve read this Christmas story, you know about how Kotzebue the Caribou lands on the naughty list—for a short time, at least—for making … Continue reading →

Coming Soon! I’ve been busy lately reading page proofs on a couple of new books due out this Spring. The first is a story that captured my interest years ago when I wrote about a special dog named Patsy Ann … Continue reading →

Summer’s far from over, but as for me, it’s time to settle in and get serious about writing. Researching a travel book like The World-Famous Alaska Highway is a lot of fun, then it’s time to pull over, apply the … Continue reading →

Every year, dozens of people fail to really understand this sign at Haines Junction, Yukon Territory. Either way leads to Alaska, but unless you take a right turn at this crossroads, you’ll end up in the coastal community of Haines, … Continue reading →

The new green shoots along the Alaska Highway are an attractive nuisance–for bears emerging from hibernation. This is the fresh salad that the bears are craving. Yesterday we saw about eight black bears, two grizzlies, and another eight or ten … Continue reading →

I liked hanging around the “World-Famous Alaska Highway” sign in Dawson Creek, even at this time of year when tourist traffic is still sparse. Within minutes we met an Alberta man who’d left his job and was encouraged by his … Continue reading →

ALBERTA’S OLD WEST We’ve been driving through a land that’s so foreign to us, it feels as if we’re extras in a Hollywood Western. Today we explored Lethbridge, Alberta, the home of Fort Whoop-Up, where the Yankee whiskey traders made … Continue reading →