There are things I always thought were normal until I moved to the lower 48 and found out that the rest of the world finds them kind of crazy. The other day my mom was driving from the big little town where my sister lives to the little village where she lives, which is on… Continue reading Stories from home
Category: The day-to-day of it all
stripper drama comes calling
I’ve been here since the begining of June. Seven weeks, maybe eight. Exactly seven times longer than I usually stay someplace, and two or three times longer than I’ve probably been in one place since last summer. It has it’s joys: watching the elder flowers turn to berry, and the roses to hips, my summer… Continue reading stripper drama comes calling
the frivolous side
Here in Alaska we have this little logo stickered or stamped on veggies and stuff that’s grown here. We Alaskans have a lot of Alaska pride, and most of us try to stick to the Alaska Grown food and Alaska Made (that’s a whole other logo) widgets. My little sister just got the Alaska Grown… Continue reading the frivolous side
Alaskan tradition…
Perched atop an old ladder I load a screw into the front of an electric screw driver. Rain is running down the walls in little trickles, and I wipe the space in front of me dry before leaning forward and setting the screw into the wall. I push, and the ladder moves backwards. There’s a… Continue reading Alaskan tradition…
How Tara got her groove back + why are people assholes?
All summer I’ve been watching people around me making money and I just… haven’t been. There’s this little magical thing that just has to be there for the money to come – people call it sales, closed ended questions, confidence, good make-up, etc, but really it just is what it is. And I’ve been lacking… Continue reading How Tara got her groove back + why are people assholes?
What am I doing? Or hobo stripper angst.
Generally I don’t think ahead much, I just do what’s right in the moment I’m in. If I weren’t completely impulsive and flighty what would be the point of being a hobo stripper? But this summer I had a kind of tentative plan: to make a gazillion dollars, fall in love with some land and… Continue reading What am I doing? Or hobo stripper angst.
Van dwelling: the mechanics of it all.
All of a sudden, my heat started blowing cold air and the van was overheating. Weird, huh? The radiator was full, so I started trying to figure out what else it could be. Water pump, thermostat, clogged heater core, etc. The thermostat wouldn’t affect the heat, so I eliminated that possibility. It had to be… Continue reading Van dwelling: the mechanics of it all.
When the going get's tough…
The tough get nails. I’m serious, look. Aren’t they pretty? I had the woman do them short enough that I can still function, and they give me magical back-of-the-neck stroking powers at work. A stripper-friend of mine got here last night. She set up a tent up where I’ve been parking on a friends property… Continue reading When the going get's tough…
Fourth of July and a barn raising party
I know I’m in Alaska when the fourth of July finds me raising the walls to a barn in the rain. First we tore down a fence for the siding, helped by a pair of six year old twins (you really know you’re in Alaska when the six year olds know how to swing a… Continue reading Fourth of July and a barn raising party
I'll be gone for a minute…
I’m headed up a mountain. I’ll be back and post something really really awesome on Thursday, so be sure to check back then. In the meantime, look to your left. Have you noticed those articles over there? The best, most informative and interesting Hobo Stripper posts are all lined up and linked to for your… Continue reading I'll be gone for a minute…