The following is reposted from two blogs in Kotzebue – Keeping it Real at 66 Degrees North Latitude, and Finnskimo.  Kotzebue is located on the Seward Penninsula in Northwest Alaska, and is actually the birthplace of my dog Buf, whom many of you know through the blog.  She was a rescue dog, shipped to Anchorage [...]

h/t – Dennis Zaki

OK, it’s not the Medal of Freedom (although some would say she deserves it), but Tina Fey will be able to see an Emmy from her house thanks to the infamous ex-almost-one-term, almost-a-heartbeat-away from leader of the free world, Sarah Palin. Fey received an Emmy Award on Saturday for her impersonation of Republican vice presidential [...]

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It’s kind of like the Runaway Train at Six Flags. You look at it and wonder how on earth it can possibly stay on the rails with all those twists and turns, and then one day, you’re minding your own business, eating your pretzel or cotton candy, and you look up and see the thing [...]

[Oops!  This was scheduled to robo-post last weekend and it never did!  Better late than never...] It looks like Massachusetts is already seeking to name public buildings and landmarks after Senator Ted Kennedy.  While this is not surprising, I’d like to point out that there are already many “Kennedy” monuments sprinkled all over the East Coast.  [...]

On my recent trip to New York City, I stopped at the Ground Zero site.  It was hard.  I’d been in the towers many times.  Some of my favorite memories of New York were eating at the restaurant Windows on the World, in the World Trade Center.  I remember clear as day sitting by those [...]

Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage and raised on 75-foot fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska. She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and found it in writing. Her first science fiction novel, Second Star, sank without a trace, her first crime fiction novel, A Cold Day for Murder, won [...]

It’s easy to feel sad today, but it’s good to feel as though sadness is being used to create something helpful and worthwhile.  This is why, back in April, President Obama declared that 9/11 would be a Day of Service to honor the spirit of those that came together to help each other, and many [...]

Rishi Maharaj is a New Yorker who now calls Alaska home.  He was the former morning drive editor and producer at WCBS-AM in New York City.  He is the currently Assistant Program Director and News Director for KBYR 700am in Anchorage. **************************** September 11th – Eight Years Later Rishi Maharaj For the first time in [...]

Outhouses can all seem alike from the inside, but this particular outhouse in Thumb Cove of Resurrection Bay is one of my favorites.  What makes it different?  Location, location, location.  You get to it on a little raised boardwalk from the cabin, which sits nestled in moss-covered spruce trees.  It’s almost surreal, with a greenish [...]

The following is an op-ed by Donald Craig Mitchell, an attorney and historian who lives in Anchorage. He is the author of Sold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land and Take My Land Take My Life: The Story of Congress’s Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, which in 2006 the Alaska [...]

Well, we all know what unfortunate moment will be most remembered from the President’s speech on health care last night;  a heckle from another ill-mannered, sophomoric, Republican who is far more interested in disruption than discussion.  This time it’s Joe Wilson from … wait for it … South Carolina.  It’s been a rough couple months for [...]

I woke up Sunday morning to this sight – a mixture of morning fog, and smoke from a cabin’s wood burning stove. It only lasted about five minutes, but it was absolutely riveting, watching the smoke and mist swirl and begin to burn off in the morning sun.

The sock puppet strikes again. Twice in 24 hours someone calling themselves “Sarah Palin” has written a statement on her Facebook page. I’m pleased that the White House is finally responding to Republican health care ideas instead of pretending they don’t exist.[1] But in doing so President Obama should follow his own sound advice and [...]