Dana Stabenow's Blog

But don’t set an open course for the virgin sea, it’s only for one evening, a gourmet dinner/wildlife viewing cruise out of Seward. It’s a fund raiser for the new Seward Public Library on June 15th. Lots of really nice … Continue reading →

Paul Fussell died last week. Many obituaries have been written since, all worth reading (The Guardian’s here and the New York Times’ here). I tend to read by subject. I’ll travel to France, say, and when I get home I’m … Continue reading →

From Letters of Note: Read the full text of Mr. Anderson’s letter here. It will have you on your feet, cheering, by the end.

[From the stabenow.com vaults, a reprint of an article I wrote a while back for the Alaska Botanical Garden's newsletter. ABG's plant sale this year is this Saturday, 9 am to 4pm. Members only the first hour.] The good news … Continue reading →

[from the stabenow.com vaults, first posted February 15, 2004] About seasickness, since almost every single non-Coastie person who has emailed me has asked if I’m seasick. Yes, once, the first full day of patrol. I woke up, sat up, and … Continue reading →

[from the Stabenow.com archives, January 25, 2010] It’s not often you find a good historian occupying the same body as a good writer — think of any history text you were force-fed in high school — but Barbara Tuchman was … Continue reading →

[from the stabenow.com vaults, first posted February 14, 2004] Two poems I found posted by the mid-watch on yellow sticky notes on a bridge window. I added the titles. Night Watch Cold wind blowin’ On the sea tonight One screw … Continue reading →

The writer of the delightful Phryne Fisher series jumps nine decades into Melbourne’s future, to bring us Corinna Chapman, baker. Corinna lives and bakes in Melbourne, Australia, in one of the truly great buildings of fiction, the Insula, eight stories … Continue reading →

Redundant Calculator. [From Partners & Spade, bwo of Laughing Squid.]