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Out of the Office: Back to basics
What makes a successful season of Nordic skiing? Is it the miles you put in? How fast you…
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Out of the Office: Dropping a line
In my ongoing quest to shake off my Florida roots and achieve the illustrious title of “Real Alaskan,”…
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Out of the Office: El Paso or bust
It was minus 22 when we left for the Anchorage airport earlier this month. It was a sunny,…
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Out of the Office: From Florida to Alaska — A wild 40 years
Like true superheroes, every Alaskan has an origin story. The really cool origin story might involve being born…
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Out of the Office: What Makes an Alaskan?
Here’s a philosophical question for the readers out there —what qualifies someone as being “Alaskan”?
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Out of the office: Best place on the peninsula
Tightness in the chest. Queasiness in the stomach. Physical longing tinged with antsiness. Like a sled dog left…
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Out of the office: Summery salmon memories
Wednesday evening, everything on my dinner plate was either caught in Alaska or grown in Alaska.
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Out of the Office: Need an exercise plan? Get a dog — a really rowdy, rambunctious dog
Suppose at your latest physical you got a stern lecture from your doctor. Suppose she told you to…
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Out of the Office: Let’s pour one out for Mother Tutka
For the two years I’ve lived in Homer, I’ve managed just two trips across Kachemak Bay that haven’t…
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Out of the Office: Burnt out
The first time I reported on the Swan Lake Fire, I didn’t even mention it by name.
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Out of the Office: Taking our time on Tutka Backdoor Trail
Twenty-one miles and 6,000 feet of climb? In four days?”
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Out of the Office: Dipping into dipnetting
The net needed to be assembled. The two pieces, one very long rod, connected to a shorter rod…