We’re in the middle of another brief, enjoyable trip to Alaska. We all ran the Snow City 5k this morning, and followed it up with a tasty lunch at the Moose’s Tooth. We’ve spent the rest of the time seeing the new sights around town – the Museum downtown, a new beer bar out our […]

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It’s time for the end of the year wrap-up, which I haven’t really done with any consistency (see the Best Live Shows of 2004 and Top Ten Films of 2004), but I’m going to give it a shot. 2008 has been an extremely busy year for us, our second full year in Los Angeles, one […]

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I picked up my parents from LAX this morning, after they slipped through the Portland airport during a good weather window on their way down from Anchorage. We stopped at BevMo for aquavit (Norwegian this time, rather than Danish) on the way home, and Aimee had some tasty couscous waiting for us for lunch. After […]

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I’m sure that’s not really going to be borne out, but so far, it’s been a scorcher, which is really disorienting, even as familiar as we’ve become with the fact that the seasons have little meaning here. We’ve been pretty domestic lately, since I returned from Alaska two weeks ago. We went for a hike […]

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My fourth and final trip to Alaska this year was another brief one, from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, to help my dad celebrate an award he received from the Alaska Conservation Foundation on Friday night. It was an evening filled with inspiring stories about people going above and beyond to help preserve wild places, […]

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Just finished a nice five-mile hike through the lush forests around Girdwood. Beautiful trees, nice views of the rushing Winner Creek, and the terrific fall colors.

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I spent Friday fielding questions about Gov. Palin at work; my office mate is from Delaware, so our room is VP Central. What a bizarre turn of events, seemingly getting more bizarre by the hour. We had a quiet Friday night, catching up on some more episodes of Mad Men, which gets better with each […]

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We had a really great weekend in Anchorage, with lots of good family time, fun with Scott cleaning out the basement (sounds fun, I know), a 5k race, and most importantly, a surprise dinner for my parents’ 40th anniversary that went off without a hitch. Aimee and I arrived late Thursday night, after a delightful […]

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…and August will be over in a flash. We got back from a nice trip to Anchorage on Sunday night, which ended with a twenty-minute conversation with Wilco’s guitarist, Nels Cline, as we waited for our delayed flight at the (soon to be renamed?) Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. He was really nice and friendly, […]

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I never thought I’d see Jeff Tweedy standing on a temporary stage in a parking lot, singing “Misunderstood” while looking wistfully off toward the Sears Mall and the BP tower, but there he was, last night, playing the band’s second ever show in Alaska. It has been raining almost continuously the whole weekend, and last […]

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It still seems slightly amazing that I can remember anything that happened nearly twenty years ago, but I guess I’m not in my twenties anymore, so I should stop being surprised. It’s Brent’s birthday today (he’s not in his twenties, either), and the combination of that event and the ubiquitous advertising announcing the return of […]

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Seattle always seemed like it was almost part of Alaska – or rather, that Anchorage was somehow a suburb of Seattle – when I was growing up. Everything shipped to Alaska came through Seattle, every trip to the Lower 48 went through Seattle, Alaskans followed Seattle’s pro sports teams – even one of the things […]

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This summer, we’ll be traveling to Hawaii with Aimee’s family, and with that trip, I will have visited all fifty states in the country. Being born in Alaska proved to be an advantage in the endeavor; it knocks out a tough one for many people and makes traveling long distances a routine part of life. […]

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And I thought 2007 was a busy travel year… We inaugurated another year of criss-crossing the globe and getting to know LAX far better than we’d like (13 trips planned in 12 months this year, up from 10 last year…) to with our now-annual January trip to Alaska. We celebrated my dad’s birthday and a […]

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We had a super-brief trip to Seattle last weekend, with just enough time for a delicious brunch with Amanda, some wandering around the Saturday Market in Redmond, and a stateside wedding celebration for an old friend from high school Saturday night. Gavin and Heather got married in Korea last month, and three of his high […]

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