From the Blog
The silent solitude of sleep
A faint birdlike call in the darkness rouses me and I reach for my phone. It’s three in the morning. The pale yellow…
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“Still want to live here?”
Tiny, idyllic-looking settlements are sparsely scattered along the coast and fjords of west Greenland. They’re beautiful, but there’s not much work. One of…
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Man overboard
In hindsight, it wasn’t a very good idea. Earlier in the day moving between one boat and the other had been easy. After…
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Greenlandic surprises
The surprises one meets in Greenland might be out of the ordinary, but the responses one becomes accustomed to are perhaps even more…
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Polar Podcasts
Sometimes good things come from bad places. Three years ago, almost to the day, I slipped on a gravelly surface while trekking in…
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Separation of church and state?
Our second son was born in Nuuk three weeks ago. At the hospital, I was given a document stating his social security number…
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Toornaarsuk – impervious, indispensable, and apparently indestructible
Greenland is full of interesting characters and P is one of them – a Greenlander who has worked with my husband on and…
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“We’re never going camping again”
In the past two weeks, while awaiting the arrival of our second son, our first was finally learning a love of the outdoors….
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