Author: Arctic Alien
“Parlez vous francais?”
I worked for a summer on the south coast of Disko Bay with a Polish geologist. We were making a geological map and…
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Dinner on ice
Some years ago I was on a work trip, travelling around the coast and fjords of South Greenland on a small ship. Together…
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A Winter Boat Place
Sometimes – well more than sometimes – Greenlandic beaurocracy knocks me flat. Systems aren’t really systematic. Public servants often don’t really serve the…
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Nadjectives and nadverbs
From time to time my son’s brain visits this universe, but not often. He is in third grade, which is taught 50% in…
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Explosions on the Sun
My husband and son stand together on the balcony outside our house in the darkness, warm inside their thick down jackets, furred hoods…
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