If you have seen one then they are always more easy to identify in the future. And if you haven’t, you may still be able to spot one but the more subtle characteristics may be lost to you. Knowing or having known the man would certainly help distinguish a Zeke Tree from any other tree. [...]

I cannot speak publicly about most of my recent experiences. So instead I will tell you about the things I see, even now, when I close my eyes. Things I will probably always see.   Chapter Five – Bering Dreams The sodium vapor lights only reach into the night, 20 or 30 yards beyond the [...]

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I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve told the story. I’ve never written about it. I don’t even think about it that much. Except lately. The events have dislodged from my subconscious and can now be found most every day bobbing at the forefront of my random waking brain activity. And [...]

I wrote this a couple years ago. Someday I’ll write the whole story, start to finish, or make a little documentary. I have a lot of cool video footage and pictures. This expedition in 1997 changed my life. Or rather changed the way I see my life. During a two week trip into the Ruth [...]

Chapter Two – Dave’s Cowboy Hat —————————————- It is summer 1980, probably late June or early July. I sit at the door of our tepee fiddling with an old bone, some string and a few carefully chosen rocks, fashioning a crude weapon. I will be seven in a few months. My father is still alive [...]

I wrote this several years ago and performed it as a monologue in an acting class… It was so much fun to write that I decided to do a series of very short stories about my past, growing up in Alaska. This is the first of those stories. Many of them (including this one) will [...]