Then and Now

In the Past

I thought I might like to live in Alaska for a while, some far out place where I’d be surrounded by ice all the time. I thought the isolation might do me some good. I thought I’d like the contradiction of blinding sunlight and ice freezing my senses.

I wanted to spot whales playing hide and seek with icebergs and watch the endless progression of glaciers.

I wondered what cracking ice sounds like from miles away. A bullet, thunder? Maybe rain? I often wondered. If I lived by the froz...