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    My name's Anita Wirawan and I live in Anchorage, Alaska.

    I started this blog as a way to get things together after my brother Jody died, but it's turned into a lot more than that. I hope you'll find the stories that you need here.

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Alaska Nomads: Rainbow Roads And Random Stops (A Story In Pictures)

Nomad Vacations: Jennifer and I love to go on vacations where we have no particular destination and just wander Alaska. We pack up everything we need for a week or two and just drive… The pictures in this post are all from one particular year…. Read more

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Some Things Are Just So Amazing, Then They Become Routine

So I’m lying here in bed with Jennifer snoring softly next to me. Too tired to get up and do something, too awake to sleep. Watched a couple videos on YouTube, got bored of it. Don’t feel like reading or browsing the internet. What to do? Figured I… Read more

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My cat is freaked out, but why? (video)

I was sitting at the desk in my office when I noticed my cat Anne was freaking out. She was crouched in the doorway next to me and kept peering anxiously down the hall like something scary was in the living room. What the hell was out there? I… Read more

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Test Post

Just testing out the whole posting from my phone thing. Move along, nothing to see here :-). Test… Read more

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My Greatest Fear (Formspring Question)

Answered a Formspring question today: What is your greatest fear?  The simple answer to this question is ‘Jennifer dying before I do.’ But before I could get to Formspring to answer this question my mind started ramping up the… Read more

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Reading – Watching – Listening To (May 2, 2010)

Experimenting with some ways to share what I’m into as far as movies, books, and music are concerned. I read/watch/listen to a lot (a lot! lol) of stuff and thought other people might be interested in some of them. At the very least it will be cool… Read more

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Living Off The Grid In Alaska (Formspring Question)

(View from a camping trip in the mountains Jennifer and I took one year.) Answered a Formspring question today: How do you and Jennifer support yourselves out there in the wilds? I am always fascinated by ppl who are somewhat off the grid… Read more

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Going to Indonesia. And meeting my Dad. After twenty years. (Parts 1&2)

Hi All, Over the next few weeks I will be re-posting some of the entries from my old MySpace blog here at Beginning, in hopes of keeping things as interconnected and easy to find as possible. I figured the best post to start with would be the… Read more

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Three Good Music Videos – Volume 1

 The Pinball Song (Eleven Twelve)  Because it was regularly featured on Sesame Street ‘The Pinball Song’ was one of the first music videos many people ever saw and it’s a classic for sure. I always loved it because everything happened… Read more

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Qaisara Numa Rahman

This is very very very late but…better late than never: I want to say congrats to Mela and Arif on the arrival of their beautiful new baby girl last month. She’s their very first child and her name is Numa. Her full name is Qaisara… Read more

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Local News! Hell Yeah!!

I suspect that working somewhere at TV6 was a person who wanted to make snappy music videos instead of editing the same ol’ local news footage day after day. Also I’m imagining the anchorpeople decked out like Rocky Balboa and listening to this… Read more

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Focus On The Info

Posted ‘Blog Adjustments’ over at the memorial… Read more

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