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“You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.”

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Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

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“Pain only seems scary while you're waiting for it to happen. After it does, it's just hurt and recovery.”

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I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow…

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The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on…

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Often, I think that my brothers were the reason I didn't do something really stupid in my teenage years; I didn't want to disappoint…

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