Greenland from the Outside In

Greenland has a difficult relationship with alcohol. Thirty years ago, Greenlanders drank more than twice as much alcohol as Danes, resulting in the…

A few years ago in Australia, I was buying supplies for geological field work from Bunnings, a hardware store. As the young man…

Greenland has eleven diagnosed cases of coronavirus, all in the capital, Nuuk. The first reported case was on March 16. Ten have now…

In the darkness, the walls reverberated, and I stirred in my bed. In the dark, I could hear my son’s soft breaths. His…

If there were tumbleweeds in Greenland, they would have been blowing down the street today. Instead, the snow blew low along the frozen…

Living in a remote place is a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, we are by our remote nature, somewhat shielded…

It wasn’t your ordinary helictoper journey. As the enormous red and white Sikorsky 61 hovered in to land on the rocky, uneven ground,…

“It’s cold today, isn’t it?” I comment to my son, as we trudge up the hill toward home. “Yeah, a bit,” he replies….

It’s easy to get excited about new things, however mundane, when one lives in a small place, even if that small place happens…