Karen Benning has enjoyed hiking and cycling in Tunisia, New Zealand, and Europe. After twenty-plus years of living in Anchorage, Alaska she has started to find things to write about right here at home. Which, of course, means it’s almost time to relocate.
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They wait for something, anything Alaskan, to happen. Maybe they hope for the large, fur-clad oddity in an urban setting, a bear or moose or wolf materializing on these downtown streets.
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I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
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The leak in your breathing/
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If I have already/
gone insane/
but I want to get/
crazier yet,/
what’s my move?/
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