Adrienne Lindholm lives in Alaska where she works in public lands conservation. She’s the author of A Journey North: One Woman’s Story of Hiking the Appalachian Trail and is at work on a collection of essays about life in the Alaskan wilderness. She can be contacted at hall_adrienne@hotmail.com.
When you come to my house and eat the caribou stew I’ve made, I want you to feel the rifle heavy as lead in the grip of my hands, the shiny brass bullet between my fingers, and how smoothly the…