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  • What’s the Difference Between Fall and Winter in Fairbanks?

    Number of comments: 8
    In the fall you ride down the driveway on your Little Tikes car: In winter you ride the kicksled: We just got an Esla Kickspark to accompany the kid-sized sled. It’s amazing. Posted in activities, alaska, family, getting outside, snowsuits, two or more, winter Tagged: alaska, esla, Fairbanks, Kicksled [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 6:57pm EDT
    by subarcticmama

  • Sarah Palin: The Cocktail, Not the Candidate

    Number of comments: 7
    Whether you want to raise a glass in Governor Palin’s honor or she makes you want to drown your sorrows, this is the cocktail for you. It was invented on Friday here in Fairbanks by a couple of resourceful Alaskan women and made its debut yesterday at a meeting of the [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2008, 11:13am EDT
    by subarcticmama

  • Fire Representative Mike Kelly: Change We Can Accomplish

    Number of comments: 10
    This election has me covering my eyes like a bad horror movie. I’m anxious, afraid, and completely disturbed. What disturbs me most is the Alaskan with a Minnesota accent claiming to speak for all of us. Personally, I don’t wear her shade. I fear that from now on people in [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2008, 7:43pm EDT
    by subarcticmama

  • Sarah Palin: This Alaskan Mom on The Alaskan Mom

    Number of comments: 10
    You haven’t heard from me for a long, long time, but you must have known this was coming. There’s no way I could keep quiet on the big Alaskan news, the big national news. Today Literary Mama posted an Op Ed piece I wrote about Ms. Palin’s candidacy. They also published [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2008, 7:19pm EDT
    by subarcticmama

  • A Much Belated Mother?s Day Wish

    Number of comments: 8
    So belated, in fact, it will leave you feeling nostalgic for leg warmers, asymmetrical haircuts, and those feather earrings. Even if you’re not a mom, watch. I dedicate this to radical mama. Congratulations on the birth of Helena, her fourth baby girl. [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2008, 10:25pm EDT
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  • If You Haven’t Noticed. . .

    Number of comments: 2
    I haven’t been around here much lately. The blog is running itself. Maybe it’s just parked somewhere, idling, keys dangling from the ignition while the radio booms bass for no listener. Maybe Hal-like, it’s plotting against me. I don’t know. I guess I should announce formally that I’m taking some time [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2008, 8:20pm EDT
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  • Remodeling, Procrastination, and Moving

    Number of comments: 5
    Seven years. That’s how long we looked at the old bookcases. The previous owners made them partially out of decking. The top had pulled out of the ceiling, exposing a row of screws. We rationalized. We needed to put in laminate flooring first. We needed to make the cabin into [...]
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    Posted: April 26, 2008, 5:47pm EDT
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  • Scenes from a Subaru: One Pony on the Roof, One Middle Finger Raised

    Number of comments: 5
    One The pony is strapped to the roof. It’s big. It was free, a Hedstrom Bouncy Horse that TJ found on cragislist. The girls, buckled into their car seats, chant, “Pony! Pony!” We wonder if its bouncing as we drive Two skateboarding boys stop, hold their boards on their hips and stare. [...]
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    Posted: April 20, 2008, 8:45pm EDT
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  • Review: Brunch at Pike’s Landing in Fairbanks, Alaska

    Number of comments: 5
    Pike’s Landing, 1850 Hoselton Rd., Fairbanks, Alaska, 479-6500 Even though it’s April and we’re still mired in snow, Mother’s Day is coming. The calendar will march on with or without spring. Holidays don’t care if they wake up in the morning to an unseasonable 5 degrees. It’s time to start planning, [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2008, 8:14pm EDT
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  • April is the Cruellest, Especially in Fairbanks

    Number of comments: 2
    April Showers? No. Instead I found myself digging the car out from under five inches of snow this morning. This is what April looks like at our house. There is an up side. April is tasty. And you can share it with someone else. [...]
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    Posted: April 15, 2008, 8:51pm EDT
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  • Fairbanks Parenting Tip: Sign Up for the Imagination Library Today

    Number of comments: 6
    We all know that reading to kids is good. It’s a fact that a print-rich environment is vital to developing literacy. Unfortunately, we all know that not all kids grow up in houses full of books. The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District’s new superintendent, Dr. Nancy Wagner, has spearheaded an [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2008, 12:11pm EDT
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  • Representative Mike Kelly: One of the “Beasts Among Us”

    Number of comments: 6
    Alaskan men, you had better stock up on guns and ammo and round up a posse. Mike Kelly, District 7’s Representative to our State Legislature, has made it clear that you are all responsible for “taking care of your women” Wild West style. Don’t count on the police to help [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2008, 4:29pm EDT
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  • Overheard in Fairbanks, Alaska

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    Overheard this evening at the Westmark Hotel in downtown Fairbanks: Happily stunned visitor from Outside: “I travel all over this country, and there is nowhere else you can watch an animal be trapped and skinned while you eat your dinner. You people should be proud of that. You’re the kind of [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2008, 9:12pm EDT
    by subarcticmama

  • Fairbanks parenting Tip: Get Over to the Ice Park Today

    Number of comments: 4
    Question: How many mamas does it take to pull one subarctic mama out of the big “ice bowl” in the Kids’ Park? Answer: two. But not until after they take pictures of you stuck in the “ice bowl” just like the toddler you went in to rescue. In my defense, prior to [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 9:17pm EDT
    by subarcticmama

  • The Ice Park Is Melting

    Number of comments: 4
    I haven’t even had the chance to post about it, and already the Ice Park, like the glaciers, the sea ice, and the polar bears, is rapidly disappearing. It’s been 40 degrees for days. Spring doesn’t sit well with ice sculptures. We went last Tuesday, so we had a chance to [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2008, 7:29pm EDT
    by subarcticmama

  • Dog Mushing: Limited North American Championships, Fairbanks, Alaska

    Number of comments: 3
    This afternoon we dropped by the Alaska Dog Mushers Association’s Limited North American Championships over at the Jeff Studdert Racegrounds. Cedar is standing firm in her decision to be a dog musher when she grows up, and Coral, a fan of dogs in general, just likes yelling “Dog! Woof woof!” [...]
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    Posted: March 08, 2008, 12:21pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Alaska: Where Men Are Men and the Governor is Pregnant

    Number of comments: 6
    Congratulations are in order for our governor, Sarah Palin, subarctic boss-mama. She announced yesterday that she is expecting her fifth child in May. I have to admit I’m feeling a little inadequate. I have only two children and a part-time job, and I can’t even find time to put the laundry [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2008, 11:28am EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Dining with Kids: Try Yoga

    Number of comments: 5
    Tuesday night we went to dinner with good friends. Cedar got squirrely waiting for the check. She joined the statue in Tadasana and said, “Namaste.” We suggested that if she stood very, very still, other people coming into the restaurant would think she was a statue too. For a few [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2008, 8:57pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Review: Esla Kicksleds for Kids

    Number of comments: 3
    Lately, we’ve been mushing a lot. No, we don’t have a dog team or a kennel. Instead we have a 14 year old husky mix who takes anxiety medication twice a day. He hasn’t been in a harness for years. When I used to skijor with him he’d run just [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2008, 9:14am EST
    by subarcticmama

  • The Up Side of Snow

    Number of comments: 4
    It’s great padding, so the baby never gets hurt. [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2008, 7:36pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Alaska Girls Finally Get Their Anthem

    Number of comments: 9
    Maybe you’re stumbling through February starry-eyed as if the only thing to think about is love. Maybe you’re just relieved that it’s above zero for the first time in thirteen days. But it’s not a normal month at all. At least not around our house. It’s February Album Writing Month, [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 9:01pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Review: First Friday at Well Street Gallery

    Well Street Art Company , 1304 Well St, Fairbanks, AK 99701 (907) 452-6169 Before kids, we’d go gallery hopping almost every First Friday, regularly hitting both the Well Street Art Company and the Bear Gallery, among others. That changed after the girls were born. Openings are something to breeze into gracefully, [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2008, 10:00pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Subarctic Mama: Blogging for Obama

    Number of comments: 10
    It’s fifty below today. I’m still feeling hopeful after the caucus, but in this red state, there’s not much I can do. It’s too cold to go door to door and talk to folks. I don’t want to turn myself into a telemarketer, even for a cause I believe in. [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2008, 12:13pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • News Flash: Subarctic Mama Endorses Obama

    Number of comments: 10
    Most of my fourteen years as an Alaskan I have been registered Independent. Some years back, when the Greens were in danger of losing their status, I wanted to help out, so I joined them. A few hours ago I changed my registration to Democrat, so I could caucus for [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2008, 10:21pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Christo in Fairbanks, Alaska

    Number of comments: 3
    You might have missed the opening, but Christo and Jeanne-Claude have an installation here in Fairbanks. Yes, they’ve wrapped the hotel being built in Fanchorage. Rumor has it that as the artists unfurled huge bolts of plastic, they were overheard saying, “Maybe we should do two layers. It’s really cold here.” Perhaps, their [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2008, 9:52pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Yet Another Snowshoe in the Woods Outside Fairbanks

    Number of comments: 5
    Today it was twenty below. The afternoon light pounded through the living room windows as the ravens started their daily commute from the dumpsters around the valley to their roosts in the hills. I went for a snowshoe in the backyard. In other parts of the world the Superbowl was [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2008, 8:37pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Things I Never Thought I Would Say

    Number of comments: 10
    Come here. Let me smell your butt. Don’t lick the potty. Your underpants are not a pocket. We don’t eat dog hair. No, that’s not Mr. Potatohead’s anus; it’s a closet in his butt. Stop licking your sister. Raffi’s not so bad. If you keep pulling on your belly button, it will never go back in and [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2008, 9:39pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Big Oil Came Calling

    Number of comments: 5
    When the phone rang and the pollster said, “Could I take a few minutes of your time to ask you about issues that are important to Alaskans,” I shocked myself by saying, “Sure.” I don’t take well to telemarketing, and Saturday was especially busy. Between TJ being out of town, having [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2008, 12:59pm EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Write-Away Folks

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    Wish me luck. I entered a a couple of posts in Scribbit’s Write-Away Contest. The topic this month is “the great escape.” For all you Alaskans who escaped over the holidays, enter a post about your trip. The prize this month is a cookbook from Girdwood’s fabulous Double Musky Inn. My [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2008, 3:02am EST
    by subarcticmama

  • Busy, busy, busy and tired.

    New year. New everything. I will remember this winter as the winter of biopsies and close calls. A winter cleaved by long flights and borrowed tourist sunshine. Sun, even with fake patina and a “Made in China” sticker on the bottom, feels good. I’ve been spinning my wheels, falling behind, [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2008, 11:51am EST
    by subarcticmama

  • While We Were Out

    The condo we stayed at claimed to offer wireless internet. Unfortunately, wireless internet meant you were to take your laptop over to the hotel next door and log in to their network. The rental agent even gave us their password. After the girls went to sleep, I didn’t feel like [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2008, 1:02pm EST
    by subarcticmama
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