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When you live at the edge of the continent and top of the world it can change your perspective. This is my attempt to offer The View From Up Here.
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My new job as a K-12 principal is rather all-consuming. Hence the lack of posts since school began. Here is the link to my newest article from the ADN. Something I was able to squeeze...
A few photos taken around Tununak recently:
I try rather diligently to avoid the rather vapid mass media fare. I confess that once last year I read an article about Britney Spears. It was an accident. Honest. Careless surfing....
Every once in a while, you see something online that, like the rubbernecking phenomenon on America's highways, you can only stare at and go, "Humph." You surf away from it and then...
This morning, the Anchorage Daily News published my newest article. I don't usually write for them during the summer, but they asked and when this strange craft paddled and sailed...
Morning broke as one of those rare days here where the sky is clear and the wind light. The hilltop behind my house was cloaked in a fog being created as the wind smacked into the
All day long the wind blew off the ocean. The wind smacked into the twin hills that guard our shallow bay and kept the rocky peaks covered in clouds.Midnight passed and the wind died...
In many ways the sea itself is like a living creature. In perpetual motion, as if breathing, it casts its breath on the shore. The never ending rush of the waves wears down the toughest...
After days of rain and wind and overcast skies, the winds switched direction yesterday evening, the clouds blew south and the sky opened up. Along the beach side cliffs, Pelagic Cormorants...
Earlier this week the much awaited fuel barge arrived to pump gasoline and stove oil into our school and village tanks. It took them several hours to deliver the fuel by which time...
Each May, people all around Alaska await the first fish. There are always stories in the local papers chronicling the arrival of the Copper River Reds the famous first salmon of the...
So after my last post, mpb asked if it was complicated to move a team of dogs. How do you get 9 dogs moved 7 miles when there isn't a road for 500 miles? Sound like a math problem...
I moved to Alaska in 1997. August 12th, 1997 to be specific. I bought a one way ticket to Anchorage and then a one way ticket to Fairbanks. Unfortunately the tickets were 10 hours...
This morning, Mother's Day, my newest article for the Anchorage Daily News was published. It is not about a thrilling dogsled ride or battle with a musk ox. It's not even about hunting...
As I stepped off the boardwalk today on my way home, I traversed solid ground for the first time in a week. The sun was shining and the azure sky took a minute to get adjusted to after...
Back east, my mother and father are putting up blue bird feeders and picking flowers. Here, I am mired in mud.Alaska Magazine usually runs reader submitted lines to complete the following...
After a long accidental hiatus, I have a new article in the Anchorage Daily News. If you have been watching "Deal or No Deal" lately, then you have an idea what it is about. One thing...
After months of procrastination and small progress, I was able to crank out a couple solid days of work on my new dogsled and get her finished. I had intended to simply replace the...
I stepped out of the school this evening at a few minutes past eight o'clock. The students who had for the last hour or so filled the commons with the beating drums and stomping feet...
Yesterday I came home late from school and sat down in my chair with a bowl of popcorn and read the news. I have become a bit of a news junkie over the past few years, in part because...
More later on the interesting process that this went through before installation. But for now, let's just actually make sure it works. The link below should take you to the active...
I was just about on my way home from work late this evening when I decided to check the ADN headlines. I was scanning the headlines while conversing with two coworkers and grading
Several months ago, an email circulated in our district email offering up an invitation to audition for an Alaskan television show. They were looking for an Alaskan man between 25-50...
For Christmas this year, my family came to Anchorage. We hadn't seen any wildlife, specifically moose, for the first several days. Then my brother came to town and Christmas morning...
