Back From Break
Where have you been? Oh, wait. You're probably asking me that, aren't you? Well, I ran away to paradise for a couple of weeks. I've been on an island, soaking up the vitamin D, and enjoying 10 hours of daylight. Did you just read that and think "What? Who talks like this?" If you aren't from Alaska and have never lived here then this might sound like some fresh brand of crazy talk, but it's not. Okay, fine I'll explain. When you live in the Interior of Alaska, you experience the shortest day of the year, known as "Winter Solstice," in a totally different way. On this day our area has only about four hours of daylight. No, don't adjust your glasses or your computer screen. You read that right. FOUR FREAKING HOURS - that's it!! You view this day as a right of passage and begin counting the minutes that will become hours of daylight. You've survived the darkness. With the lack of light, comes a lack of vitamin D.