Balance
Balance. As the nights get shorter for northerners they begin to lengthen down here in the Antarctic. We’ll see more and more of you, Moon. Photo by Eric Guth
Our Journey
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The meaning of home
It has been a long time since I have been at home, long enough to wonder what home really means. I know it means love, comfort, and familiarity, but if I include beauty, diversity, and a way to find newness in every day, then perhaps Antarctica has become–in some tiny way–part of my home. Photo…
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Life inside the Arctic
Our first story with National Geographic is now live! My writing, Eric’s photographs, our experience in four Arctic nations.
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An expedition that listens for the true north, one person at a time
I used to think of the Arctic as a wilderness. This is a common misconception for southerners like me. Ice, tundra, polar bears, that kind of thing. I had traveled north…
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No story is true for everyone
We’ve been around the world. Into Russia from the east and out through the west. Everyday I’ve come across different representations of culture and different ways to share it. Like this Sakha mural in a grocery store in downtown Yakutsk. Eric set up the tripod, and I asked for a selfie, and a few bystanders…
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The power of stories
When I woke up in Yakutsk, the metropolis of Russia’s Far East, and planned the day with our host, Egor Makarov, I never expected that a few hours later his recommendations would take me into the middle of the diamond industry. At the top of just another staircase and through a gate made of rebar,…
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City in the tundra
The stories we tell ourselves. . . Anadyr is the urban heart of Chukotka. It’s home to 15,000 people, but with the apartment buildings, administration centres, a cultural complex, swimming pool, movie theatre, supermarket, mall, and some hotels, it feels like a city. It’s a city in the middle of the tundra on the edge…
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Grit behind the scenes
Office time can happen anywhere. And hey, at least here I can do some ironing. Mostly, I tell you about the action, sometimes the emotion, rarely the straight-up behind-the-scenes, office-style elbow grease to make it all happen. I’ve just spent an hour writing about that stuff, and it’s just too boring to share, so I’ll…
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Shimmer of green
Night time is getting longer and longer. Ice begins to take over the ponds and the snow line creeps down the hills. Tonight, the aurora begins at dusk, before the light is completely gone, and it just keeps building. The shimmer of green running back and forth across the sky reminds me to the caribou…
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Make beauty out of your life
Making beauty. Taking whatever you have to work with–whatever your life gives you–be it the memory of a polar bear or a pile of worn out tires, and getting to work. Making our houses into homes. If they can do it out here, in the villages of Russia’s Far East, then we can do it…
