Jennifer brice biography

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BY JENNIFER BRICE

 

Winter solstice, 2014.

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Jennifer Brice is an associate professor of English at Colgate University and the author of The Last Settlers.

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Judge Jennifer Duncan-Brice serves as a mediator, arbitrator, Discovery Facilitator and Case Evaluator in substantial civil tort litigation.

Alaska Airlines 145 carves through ice fog on final descent into Fairbanks, thunks onto frozen tarmac. The woman in 10E checks her iPhone: 2:20 a.m., forty-four below zero. She looks out the window at a world simplified to grayscale, like a grainy sixties home movie.

A stranger seeing this landscape for the first time might find it austere and otherworldly, even lunar-esque. She finds it beautiful—attuned, in the words of Scott Russell Sanders, to her “most profound sense of how things ought to be.”

As the jet bleeds off speed, this woman—middle-aged, a middling writer, no longer beautiful (if she ever was)—presses her forehead to the window, scanning the runway shoulder.

She’s looking for a sign.

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It’s not a metaphor, this sign, but a solid object of aluminum and steel. She’s seen it hundreds, maybe thousands, of times. She knows what to expect: no words, just numbers, three to be exact,