Tag: Seldovia

Let freedom ring

(on the first anniversary of 9/11) I’VE BEEN THINKING A lot about freedom of late, particularly when I went home this year for the Fourth of July. Home is Seldovia, a village of about 500 people on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, a place of heart-stopping beauty built on the precarious edge of a deep…

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Let Freedom Ring

[published in Alaska magazine September 2002] I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom of late, particularly when I went home this year for the Fourth of July.  Home is Seldovia, a village of about 500 people on the southern shore of Kachemak Bay, a place of heart-stopping beauty built on the precarious edge of a…

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Snerts: File down your fingernails.

[And my Snerts blog post from 2006, because Lars couldn’t find it. *waves*] Folks have asked for instructions on how to play Snerts. Snerts is a multiple-player solitaire game. Yes, really. You need at least four players to make it really fun.

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