Typing With Bricks

Ever wonder what it would be like to be someone else? To live a different life? Children’s stories often have a life-switching them. The orphan becomes princess, the pauper becomes prince. And, of course, Pinocchio becomes a real boy.
Chapter Notes
I complain a lot about my own writing. It is possible that I’m my worst critic. [...]

More of my favorite critters show up. I’ve only had a few encounters with wolves. Once, at night, while driving between Fairbanks and Anchorage, I spotted one walking near the side of the road. Another time I was out wandering trails north of town and saw several. Both encounters were exceedingly brief – a sight [...]

I imagine that telling time without a watch or clock can be a bit frustrating in the summer in Alaska. A sun dial might be amazingly confusing as days grow longer and shorter over the year. I suspect you’d have to be pretty patient as you spend a year making daily notes. Those ancient architects [...]

I have always loved the pictures people take in glacial ice caves. The deepest of blues, like giant sapphires, draws the eyes to the water-shaped, almost organic, walls of ice. One day, I hope, I’ll be able to venture beneath a glacier and experience it first hand.
Chapter Notes
This is another chapter where I’m not pleased [...]

Alaska’s geological history is intimately tied to glaciers. Mountains have been carved down and valleys dug out. The path of rivers has been altered and many a lake created. Their brilliant blues are equated with gems, and yet from above, they may look like vast rivers of dirty snow.
Chapter Notes
It was important that at some [...]

Being stranded on the top of a mountain was probably not in our toy’s daily plan. Yet, here they are. Who would have thought getting from one point to another would be so trying?
Chapter Notes
Any story involving travel across Alaska would undoubtedly have to include Denali. Each year lots of people try to climb up [...]

With Chapter Seven, we are halfway through the short chapters I completed several years ago. I know it seems like a lot of chapters, but given each one is generally less than three full pages, it winds up not being a lot of reading. When I finalize this story, I’ll likely combine chapters into more [...]

Welcome to Chapter Six, hope you’re not afraid of heights. Our heroes are about to take the longest leap of their journey, so far. I wonder where it will take them?
Chapter Notes
Not really a lot to add here, this time. We get a bit more into the personalities of our Raven friends, and learn that [...]

As you may have noticed from the URL you are on, I love ravens. It stood to figure that they would be worked into any story I wrote. Some might call it an obsession, or a passion, or, well… kinda creepy. Whatever. Whether it is the mythology, or just the sheer exuberance they seem to [...]

I seem to have this odd habit of finishing a chapter on the first line of the third page. Hmmmm.
I have to admit, I haven’t looked at some of these chapters in quite some time, so it has been fun to go back and reread some of the things I’ve written. I hope that does [...]