An old buddy contacted me just after the first of the year and I was a bit stunned because I haven’t heard from him since… Continue reading
Dear St. Nicholas, I’m certain that you are going to look at the return address before opening this letter and experience immediate blood pressure issues.… Continue reading
What is it about turkeys that cause so much chaos around the holidays? Some people go ape trying to figure out the perfect way to… Continue reading
There is something seriously askew in our little piece of paradise when it comes to the bird population hanging in the ‘hood this time of… Continue reading
Last Sunday morning while I was deeply engrossed in a Don Wilson’s novel called “The Cartel,” my bride suddenly burst through the front door and… Continue reading
I can’t recall exactly how many times through the years I’ve been asked, “What the #*%^ is so addicting about fishing? You’re always up before… Continue reading
When the fish are running, I have two friends who come close to losing their collective minds. Turk’s a river runner while Willie is a… Continue reading
The cabin was steeped in an early morn nippiness spawned by a canopy of dank clouds weeping tiresome showers when our dog Howard decided to… Continue reading
Just beyond our cabin’s door the sun is strong-arming its way through a feathery overcast while the bay below does its quintessential best to masquerade… Continue reading
By the time you read this, the 25th Annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival will be winding down. Over the weekend, birders have been in hot… Continue reading
After several weeks of intense sunshine showering the landscape with rays of cold so intense that the official arrival of spring felt more like stepping… Continue reading
Last month I inferred that Old Man Winter was behaving like a borderline psychotic suffering conflicting flashbacks inclusive of the peak of his ice age… Continue reading
Last spring I wrote a column titled “Something wicked this way comes”. It was about a reccurring spring battle we have with malevolent moose who… Continue reading
I was standing on the deck this week admiring a shifting cloak of deep blue sliding over the terminus of the glacier across the bay… Continue reading
Once again Christmas and the advent of a new year are peeking over the horizon and, once again, the lady of the cabin has transformed… Continue reading
During the last couple of months, certain people were starting to think we were on the verge of some sort of weird cultural Armageddon.Concepts and… Continue reading
I’ve always been a big fan of October.I’m certainly not an art connoisseur but when nature paints Alaska’s vastness with leaves of gold so profound… Continue reading
Once again we find ourselves beyond the autumn equinox where the sunset of summer continues its spiral deeper into the growing dusks of fall.The raucous… Continue reading
A special type of fresh air swept into our world this month.For 16 days, it managed to dissipate the suffocating smog of biased media, mudslinging… Continue reading
Things have been a bit gloomy and wet as of late but that’s just fine because no one wants some brain stem mishandling a slash… Continue reading
