Category: Environment
Fast-fading Arctic summer
As we sail toward Nuuk, the boat crouches in the low space beneath the hovering fog and the mirrored sea, the still water…
Read MoreLost at sea
Imagine you lost your phone seven hundred kilometres from home on an isolated beach reachable only by sea? What do you reckon your…
Read More“Dad can’t pick me up, he’s butchering a reindeer”
The two boys had been playing all day and, with dinner approaching, I told my son’s friend it was time for him to…
Read MoreThe international bean bag bean saga
The other day, my husband commented that our bean bag could do with more beans, and I scowled. We have a bean bag…
Read MoreAccidental connections to another world
The audible THUD, over the sound of the engine, was accompanied by a heavy shudder. What on Earth is he doing? I wondered,…
Read MoreAn inauspicious start in Greenland
It wasn’t a promising start. I opened the official-looking letter to find only a few lines of text. I had been judged “unqualified”…
Read MoreDisconnect from paradise
I was away for work last week. I missed my family. And sometimes work just gets me down. Sometimes I am ambivalent, indifferent,…
Read MoreNuuk’s unseasonal summer sun
*Image from the National Snow and Ice Data Center It’s a blistering nineteen degrees Celsius on what seems to be a stunning summer’s…
Read MoreResurrection
A white orb shimmers in and out of watery focus, framed by liquid blue that shields this pale sun from reflected clouds in…
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