Tightness in the chest. Queasiness in the stomach. Physical longing tinged with antsiness. Like a sled dog left behind on…
Wednesday evening, everything on my dinner plate was either caught in Alaska or grown in Alaska.
Suppose at your latest physical you got a stern lecture from your doctor. Suppose she told you to start exercising…
For the two years I’ve lived in Homer, I’ve managed just two trips across Kachemak Bay that haven’t been work…
The first time I reported on the Swan Lake Fire, I didn’t even mention it by name.
Twenty-one miles and 6,000 feet of climb? In four days?”
The net needed to be assembled. The two pieces, one very long rod, connected to a shorter rod with a…
On my days off I drive.
It was by a happy accident that while camping I met the woman who eventually became my wife. Jenny and…
If there’s one lesson I’ve learned this past year, it’s that sometimes you have to change your life, and sometimes…
Last week, the members of my team and I came in absolute dead last at trivia night. I normally wouldn’t…
Anniversaries are strange things — in many ways they are arbitrary, days we mark on a calendar to keep us…
Editor’s note: This column originally appeared in the Dec. 7 Peninsula Clarion before the recent snowfall in Homer. But you…
