Who has ever poured over a list of possible baby names, highlighting favorites and writing them down for deliberation? Who has done the same for… Continue reading
My friend Joseph is a Scrabble savant by my standards and, I would think, by many other’s standards too. He excels at anagrams, staring at… Continue reading
For the month of February, the Kenai Fine Art Center will be displaying a collection of watercolor paintings submitted by 11 different community members. The… Continue reading
My daughter Susan suggested I should tell about the farm I grew up on over 50 years ago. If we wanted ice cream we had… Continue reading
Each one of these Alaskans has made our state a better place to live.
In the wake of the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter, the hashtag “Girl Dad” has been trending.
Salmon and other fish must be prioritized for the owners of the resource first.
It was minus 22 when we left for the Anchorage airport earlier this month. It was a sunny, beautiful drive north. The kind of bitter-cold… Continue reading
It is part of the human condition to worry.
An introduction from new state trooper director
We can address the underlying condition that is plaguing Alaska.
“He took traditional themes and topics and just completely did them his own way — I mean, completely.”
Recipes: chicken divan, layered taco dip, boiled spice cake
One of my priorities is to combat this scourge and eliminate it from our communities.
I was in a local coffee emporium the other day quietly perusing the newspaper when a rather heated argument broke out between a foursome who… Continue reading
All summer long, you can find rowers, kayakers and more on Bear Lake just outside of Seward. Somewhere hidden on the west side, there’s a… Continue reading
Late last summer, as I waited in a line of traffic on the Sterling Highway to get through the Swan Lake Fire, smoke rose from… Continue reading
We would spend all night in the middle of the summer around the bonfire.
In 2019 several thousand common murres starved to death in the Kachemak Bay.
There’s a misconception that commercial fishing is business and sportfishing is just for fun.
