Category Archives: ARCTIC WONDER

COOL MEMORIES IN HOT TIMES ~ A Greenlandic Escape

UGH!      Looking for a moment of relief from current events and summer’s scorching heat? When our beaches, lakes, and pools are overflowing and the world at large is an inferno of WTF crazy, I take a moment and … Continue reading

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DAYDREAM

While temperatures continue to climb in the northern hemisphere, one way I try to keep cool is by imagining I am in Greenland again. I swipe my brow, close my eyes, and pretend the fan oscillating at my feet is … Continue reading

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SERMERSSUAQ UKARPALUGPOQ – An Earth Day Tribute

SermerssuaqThe Big Ice weepswailssighs at humankind’s inability to use their knowledge wisely  

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A SUNDAY NOODLE

If this is BEAUTY-FUL and this is

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WHAT THE ICEBERG SAID

Bold. Blue. Megalithic.  To think I might have begun as a whispered word on an ancient’s breath,a droplet in the spray of a neolithic sneeze, the spatter in a sputtered warning, “Run!”a single snowflake spit from a cloud, delivered on … Continue reading

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KALAALLIT NUNAAT – Can’t Get You Outta’ My Head

Extreme weather boots. Hat. Insulated gloves. Balaclava (baklava, optional) Back, neck, hand and foot heat packs Thermal socks…and…and…and. The list was long. About this time three years ago, I was packing for an arctic adventure. Thirty-six months ago, I had … Continue reading

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KALAALLIT NUNAAT – Man In The Icicle

  Winter Dissolving crystalline crust decomposing evaporating

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KALAALLIT NUNAAT – The Sun Sets on a Different World

Quimmer. Stranded. Separated from his pack. About as visible as a grain of sand stuck to the smooth side of a seashell, the dog stands on a slab of sea ice floating atop the placid waves of  Scorsbysund. Four days ago, … Continue reading

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KALAALLIT NUNAAT – Through The Eyes Of A Potato

How long does it take for a potato to freeze? I wondered as the rotors whirred to life. It was April in the Arctic. We were on the last leg of our journey to spending eight days in a remote … Continue reading

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SERMERSSUAQ – An Earth Day Homage

She weeps. She wails. She sighs, hopeful that one day her children will learn to use their knowledge wisely. Sermerssuaq The Big Ice. Caribbean-blue melt-water pools the size of small countries spread upon Mother Earth’s once pristine pate. Creaking, cracking she moans, … Continue reading

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