It has been so cold here in Alaska for the past few weeks. It has not been above 0 degrees since before Christmas Day, if you can believe that, and has routinely been as low as -20. Your Alaskan friends, including the Frick Jrs, are freezing! Luckily, it is supposed to begin to warm up early next week, although the weather service continues to push the warm up day back. It was supposed to begin warming up today, but it is currently -16 and supposed to be around 0 through the weekend. Please send us warm thoughts!!
The funny part of the whole thing is that when it does warm up to 0 or to 15-20 above, it will feel so hot and there will people in short sleeve shirts!
Its funny, though, because Jessica and I were talking about this very thing in the late fall. I am currently teaching an intensive for the Alaska Model United Nations (AK MUN), and the topic of this year's conference is Climate Change (AKA Global Warming) and Environmental Sustainability. So Jessica and I were talking about how the climate has changed in recent years. The thrust of my part of the discussion was about Alaskan weather. I have lived here for 30 years. In that 30 years, I have seen the climate and weather patterns change dramatically. For example, when I was little, there would always be snow on the ground for Halloween; the first snow would always be in mid-October. In addition, the winter would be cold, but there would be a couple weeks here and there, usually in late December and mid-February, when the temperature would drop to -20. The last 10-11 years, however, the snow wouldn't come until late October and it rarely got below 0. The year Jessica and I met (2002), we met in late October and we went for long walks-it did not snow until Thanksgiving! In fact, there was a pattern where it would actually warm up to 40 or so and rain in late December and early February. Of course, this year is very, very different. I wonder if this will be the new pattern or if it is just a downturn on an otherwise upward trend. BTW, this summer was one of the coldest, rainiest summers on record!
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- Larry Frick
- I have lived in Alaska for almost thirty years now. I enjoy spending time with my beautiful wife and our two wonderful children.
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Relentless by Dean Koontz
Bestselling novelist Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich is a lucky man and he knows it. He makes a handsome living doing what he enjoys. His wife, Penny, a children's book author and illustrator, is the love of his life. Together, they have a brilliant six-year-old, Milo, affectionaly dubbed "Spooky," and a non-collie named Lassie, who's all but part of the family.
So Cubby knows he shouldn't let one bad review of his otherwise triumphant new book get to him-even if it does appear in the nation's premier newspaper and is penned by the much-feared, seldom-seen critic Shearman Waxx. Cubby knows that the best thing to do is ignore the gratuitously vicious, insulting, and inaccurate comments. Penny knows it; even little Milo knows it. If Lassie could talk, she'd tell Cubby to ignore them, too.
Ignore Shearman Waxx and his poison pen is just what Cubby intends to do. Until he happens to learn where the great man is taking his lunch. Cubby just wants to get a look at the mysterious recluse whose mere opinion can make or break a career-or a life.
But Shearman Waxx isn't what Cubby expects, and neither is the escalating terror that follows what seemed to be an innocent encounter. For Waxx gives criticism; he doesn't take it. He has ways of dealing with those who cross him that Cubby is only beginning to fathom. Soon Cubby finds himself in a desperate struggle with a relentless sociopath, facing an inexorable assault on far more than his life.
Fearless, funny, utterly compelling, Relentless is Dean Koontz at his riveting best, an unforgettable tale of the fragile bonds that hold together all that we most cherish-and of those who would tear those bonds assunder.
Jessica is currently reading...
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob-knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?
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