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Welcome! I am posting entries on various topics ranging from travel, genealogy, families, relationships, mental health, recovery, men’s issues, aging, and more. While it would certainly be nice if you bought my book: “Family Hunger – Breathe Life Into Your Family History” through amazon.com, I encourage to write and record your own stories.
I am working on my second book: “Chasing Headstones – How to Transition Into Retirement and Into the Ground – or How to Avoid Both”, and my third book: “Now What? Alaska!”
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Journal entry – The Vast Interior (dream entry)
© Copyright Todd Neel 12/21/2024 Saturday 3 am – I awake with discomfort in my bladder and awareness of recollection of a warm fuzzy dream, a good one that I want to hang onto. I get up and go to bathroom in the dark, trying to preserve the threads of my dream – conscious jewels…
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Poem-like Ditty – Google is NOT God
© Copyright Todd Neel Google is NOT God Todd Neel 10/9/2024 Google Navigation does NOT lead me down the road less traveled. Why am I following this line of cars through all these obscure turns and weird roads, and why is there a line behind me? Are these all local people, and they all know…
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Scarce Resources
© Copyright Todd Neel 9/12/2024 Thursday – If you’re sitting at home right now with a furnace, instant electricity on-demand, Wi-Fi internet and all kinds of magical things to happen at your heart’s desire with the push of a button, enjoy! If you have seemingly infinite hot and cold running water (or the illusion of…
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DENALI! THE HIGH ONE!
© Copyright Todd Neel 9/11/2024 Wednesday I leave the Fairbanks area today with the goal of reaching Denali National Park. The peak was formerly known as Mount McKinley. Denali means “The High One” in the native language of the Koyukon people (see Wikipedia articles: “Denali–Mount McKinley naming dispute. (2024, November 13). In Wikipedia, if you…
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North Pole, Alaska
© Copyright Todd Neel 9/10/2024 Tuesday – 9/11/2024 Wednesday I stayed two nights here at Chena River State Recreation Area, North Pole, Alaska. This was the second day of two nights. On my first night of camping near the town of North Pole, AK, I hear on the Fairbanks radio that this was supposed to…
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Golden Hour
© Copyright Todd Neel 9/9/2024 Monday – Last night I camped at the trailhead for “Hidden Lake”, AK, which I had planned to hike one mile into this morning. My bear spray is definitely coming with me! But I woke up too early and it was still dark by the time I was ready to…
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