Nick Varney

Unhinged Alaska: Something wicked this way comes

Since our last get together, spring has tenaciously sunk its choppers deep into the surrounding environment and is hanging in there like a possessed Pitbull.Gardeners… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Nature’s great stage

Everyone has their opinion of when spring finally announced its royal presence.Anxious gardeners started scraping aside indolent wisps of minuscule snow berms dawdling beneath the… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: There’s a ghost in my machine

I have experienced very few challenges during my graying-hair life that have bestowed the level of angst as the one that I’m currently confronting.There were… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Mother Nature’s sucker punch

The second month of the year has always been a sneaky critter when it comes to weather but sometimes it totally lacks decorum and even… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Better to be on the Love Boat than under it

My, my, here we are, once again, in the cuddle clime of Valentine’s Day.This “special” period should have rolled in as no surprise to any… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: The NFL playoffs, non-fan, awareness guide

For the next few weeks, a huge segment of the population will come critically close to OD’ing on saturated fats and cholesterol while becoming so… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: A political-free zone for the holidays

The holidays at our cabin by the sea is usually a primo time to kick it back, reinforce family bonds and strengthen ties with friends… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Holiday preps and mild chaos

The days orbiting Thanksgiving are usually as quiet as a puppy’s snore in our little patch of paradise. The only sounds drifting through our cabin… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Humpbacks and minke and orcas! Oh my!

Homer claims to be the “Halibut Capital of the World” but if things keep up it may add serious whale watching to the menu of… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Fall and my dog Howard

I’m one of those offbeat types who enjoys the early morning hours where the eastern sky has yet to develop its personality and merely glows… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: The pitfalls of being a freelancer

To answer several emails that have rolled in lately, yes, the rumors are true, I also write a summer fishing column for the Homer News.… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Shake, rattle and go

What a long strange week it has been.Sunday and Monday were near normal except for a mild frenzy associated with my wife’s departure on Tuesday… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Thrasher’s resurrection

Hopefully, as you read this piece you are doing so without a dramatic new body piercing in an ultra sensitive place or a Russian River… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Mungo bites it and a king’s revenge

Before I get rolling, I’d like to publicly admit that I’ve finally seen the light, especially after last year’s series of fishing safari debacles that… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: When does spring really arrive?

Everyone seems to have their personal definition of when spring officially arrives.Some stick with the “official” March equinox designation that claims it occurs when the… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Willie’s little dark cloud

My buddy Willie is one of those guys who always seem to be 10 laps down when it comes to participating in life’s grand race.He… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Thar’s gold in those silver winter kings

The Unhinged Alaska staff has been inundated with questions, beefs and psychotic rants about the new marijuana law.We have somberly discussed the situation and the… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: The morning after

A great Sunday morning to you — unless of course you read the paper online, then all bets are off because Unhinged usually shows up… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: DISH doldrums

A few weeks ago my buddy Turk called and was so fired up I could feel the plastic in my phone starting to soften from… Continue reading

Unhinged Alaska: Silent night, heavenly light

Come this Christmas Eve it will two decades since I experienced an unrivaled eruption of grandeur helping me sidestep a pointless night of lonesomeness.It began… Continue reading