TIM MELICAN ROLLS UP in the Magic Bus and grins. “Wanna ride up front?” Of course I pile in and Tim puts it in gear and that exact moment marks the beginning of the first official rite of spring in Anchorage, Alaska. It’s the Heart Run, in which this year 6,700 participants will bravely bare…
IT’S BEEN A LOUSY WINTER up here. It rained right through October and November, flooding the Kenai Peninsula and washing out the Sterling Highway in two places. It didn’t snow until December 10, and then not much, and it had mostly melted off by January, when they were playing golf in Palmer. In February the…
Read more I haven’t been cross-country skiing or ice skating once this winter.
O Lord give my dogs / the strength to continue on / and me the knowledge to survive. —Richard Burmeister, “The Musher’s Prayer” QAEY WILLIAMS HAS BEEN standing in line in front of the Fourth Avenue Theater in Anchorage since eight am. It is the first Saturday in March. She is armed with a folding chair, a…