the Nixionary

The Seattle airport feels like 20 elephants have been crammed into a 20 foot room. I like to say, “help!” quietly in situations like this.
When I go to check in with United, the employee standing at the ribbon rail accosts me with:
“Are you checking both of those things?”
“Yes.” I have a 54 pound [...]

There are all sorts of people in Alaska.
There’s a crazy man who haunts the UA Anchorage campus on his bike, yelling at himself from behind a salt and pepper beard. One day this week, he was wearing a bear cape. Today, he had on a North Face.
Another type of person here, besides my [...]

En route to Anchorage, I had the initially unfortunate luck of getting put on the “milk run” plane– one that, in lieu of going direct, hops from small town to small town.
I mean small. It was noon, I was hungry. The macadamia nut cookie was long gone, and not very good. The [...]

Mostly, in between bouts of coffee and reading my brains out, I’ve been observing. In the space of time since I last wrote, I’ve been mulling, scatteredly, over:
-10 whales bubble feeding– which is when they send a huge bubble of smaller fish up to the surface where the whales all come together, like they are [...]