She’s a home away from home for many of us, and as I look out the snowy windows here in Canada tonight, part of me is still with her. For those of you working on board right now, whether you ever read this or not, I am thinking of you, the ice, that gorgeous evening…
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…
Our first story with National Geographic is now live! My writing, Eric’s photographs, our experience in four Arctic nations.
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…
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,…
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…
Here in Chukotka, I have so many unanswerable questions each day. Stories–sometimes disguised as wreckage, litter, or a closed door–play hard to get. How many questions from this one extraordinary scene? A torn up fuselage perched beside the road, its story lost to local memory. Maybe the ravens know what happened here. Maybe they can…
Provideniya, Chukotka. A town that immediately captured my heart. Perhaps you know this feeling, when you arrive somewhere new and foreign, but something about it fits your spirit. Like it has something you’ve been looking for. Here, our theme is layers. Layers of colour, texture, history, and emotion. The layers you go through when you…
On the subject of friends and mentors, whom I’ve been thinking about all day, how does this photo represent what’s next for us? . This is my Russian teacher, Yuriy. Look at that smile! That’s right, we’re going to Russia! Tomorrow! Well, that’s the plan anyway. We’ll be in Russia’s Far East for six weeks,…
Back in action after a long break from the internet up here in Nunavut and Greenland. We’ve been setting our course by the midnight sun and finding new stories.