I have no particular expectations for the New Year
No matter which side of the political fence we stand on, as a generation we are intolerant of pity parties
Thanksgiving has come to mean “feast” in most people’s eyes.
In a little more than three weeks we will be voting again for state and national legislators and for president
I had a birthday this past week.
The world was endless with simply a dollar in an envelope
The lupines are crazy this year, as were the dandelions.
Organizations are running out of people to keep them going
T.S. Eliot had it right: April is the cruelest month
I miss having kids around to do an egg coloring day
To prefer one thing over another does not make the unpreferred bad, or unhealthy, or criminal, it just means you have found something better for you
True to form, January was only double the length of the other months
All the people I visit with these days have the same story
The first 10 years we were in Alaska we lived remotely
This time of year I always think of fall when I was a kid
Reviewing the last column, I wondered when we started to avoid driving
These trips have given us a unique look at the drive from Kenai to Anchorage