Dear friends,
Wishing you all a happy (and perhaps chilly!) start to 2020! After record-setting high temperatures to round out an already warm year, we’ve dipped below zero (which is just fine by me!). I’m grateful for snow, friends, family, and the slowly lengthening days.
Our family spent the holidays at our cabin on Lynn Canal with blizzards, gales, and a few glorious hours of sunshine. This trip was a good reminder of how sometimes doing nothing is exactly what we need. Our only company was the lone wolf that trotted by unseen in the long dark mornings, the river otters that dragged their bellies and tails along the sand, the sea lions and sea ducks that dove in the ever-present surf, and the moose Pat spotted several miles from our cabin. (This was only the third moose we’ve seen out here, and only the second one alive—the first moose sighting we had was the remains of a wolf kill three winters ago.) Reading, writing, exploring the woods, pounding our feet on the sand as the rain pounded us, and spending hours in the workshop rattling in 40 knot gusts was mostly enough to fend off cabin fever.
Book updates: The paperback is coming out in February and I’ll be doing spring events in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, and Alaska to celebrate. Please share with friends and family who might be interested. Several lovely reviews/interviews also just posted in The Globe and Mail, Anchorage Daily News, and Explore Magazine. Thanks, as always, for the amazing support!
With love and best wishes for a happy, peaceful new year,
Caroline
