by Tele | Sep 24, 2011 | Alaska, Environment, Reading & Writing, Wildlife
Alaska Book Week is almost here! October 8 – 15; more info here. Join Hooked in celebrating ABW from wherever you are, by cozying up with one of Alaska’s many talented authors. This is a review of one of my favorites. Packing for halibut fishing last May...
by Tele | Sep 5, 2011 | Alaska, Culture, Environment, From the Galley, Hooked Favorites, Sitka
Year-round, Sitka’s bulletin boards are thick with flyers of talks, classes, performances. My Hokey-Pokey presence – one foot in the community, one foot out – has often meant that if it sounds like something I’d like to experience, it’ll happen while...
by Tele | Jul 29, 2011 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, Environment, F/V Nerka, Hooked Favorites, Salmon Trolling
Cap’n J and I spent the past 12 days chasing coho. They’re always on the move, searching for a steady food source, and they travel incognito, invisible to our above-water existence. But the meal plan they’re looking for, from tiny shrimp-like krill to...
by Tele | Jun 28, 2011 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, Environment, F/V Nerka, Salmon Trolling, Sitka, Women in Fishing
The Nerka is moored on New Thomsen’s 4th finger, a trek to the ramp that typically takes my short legs a 4 minute march. But the harbor is a different neighborhood than it was a week ago, and Cap’n J and I now incorporate a half-hour buffer – at least –...
by Tele | Apr 13, 2011 | Alaska, Culture, Environment, Hooked Favorites, Sitka
On October 14, 2006, the stars lined up just right (in the alignment of bad ocean conditions) that we were tied to the dock on the day of a totem raising. The newspaper explained this “Wellbriety” totem pole, going up at the SouthEast Alaska Regional...
by Tele | Apr 10, 2011 | Alaska, Culture, Environment, Sitka
I’ve yet to find anywhere in the world that gives me the same sense of peace as Sitka does. Just pulling into the harbor and stepping onto the dock, my body relaxes bone-marrow deep. And if I had to pick a single place where that slow down, breathe deep, let...
