Lynn Lovegreen
YA historicals in Alaska

I recently learned that May is Older Americans Month. It’s always good to honor our elders, who have worked and sacrificed much to give...

May 5-11 is Children’s Book Week! Most readers start their reading journey as children, and in some ways children are the most important...

April has many holidays and observances. One I haven’t highlighted yet is Neurodiversity Celebration Month, so it’s about time I wrote...

Denali and the Denali Park road National Park Week is April 19-27 this year, and it’s Earth Day on the 22nd, so it’s a perfect time to...

Happy National Arab American Heritage Month! This year’s theme is “Arab American Heritage: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future.”...

April 6-12 is National Library Week, the time we usually celebrate libraries. As you may know, libraries are near and dear to my heart....

April is National Poetry Month! As the Academy of American Poets states, it “celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and that...

Note: This was first posted on the Romancing the Genres blog Thanks to old Covid habits and retirement, I don’t get out as often as I...

One of the best things about winter is that it's raven time. This is the season when ravens hang around town. They can supplement their...

Arliss Sturgulewski, Photo from RadioKAOS, CC BY-SA 3.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 >, via Wikimedia Commons. Learn...

Ramy Smyth and team in the snowy year of 2022 You may know how the Iditarod sled dog race started: Joe Redington Sr. and a few others...

I’ve written about Fur Rendevous/Fur Rondy before ( https://www.lynnlovegreen.com/post/fur-rondy-running-of-the-reindeer ), as it’s an...

I’ve been fairly quiet this year when it comes to politics in my blog posts. It’s not that I don’t care—when you see my BlueSky posts,...

Langston Hughes (c. 1925) by Winold Reiss, on display in the Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism exhibition at The...

Maybe your newsfeed is a mix of rumors and news. Maybe you distrust the news you see. Maybe you’re not sure who to believe. We all need...

Alaska, like many places, has had unusual weather patterns this winter. We haven't had much snow--inches instead of feet in my town....

One hundred years ago this week, the town of Nome, Alaska had a diptheria outbreak. Children in the small town were desperately ill, some...

The fires in the Los Angeles area are still raging, and many of us in other parts of the country want to help. (Later, once things are...

Note: Not feeling well this week, so just reposted this from the Romancing the Genres blog This month’s blog topic is “My ‘go to’...

2025 Watchword: Perseverance I choose a watchword for each year, giving me a focus for those twelve months. Last year’s word was Grace (see more at https://www.lynnlovegreen.com/post/update-on-2024-watchword-grace ), and it helped me to show grace as I moved through the world. This year’s word is perseverance. Perseverance: from Merriam Webster: continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition : the action or condition or an instanc