Life in Alaska — A View From Homer

Heading out of the Homer Harbor. Our destination is straight ahead where the boats are. We hadn't planned on a camping trip so soon aft...

Two years ago when we drove our U-Haul 4000 miles from Michigan to Alaska, my husband swore never to do that again. Since then we’ve be...

My dear blog readers, I am so sorry for leaving you hanging...I am in the middle of a 6 week road trip to the Lower 48 (an Alaska thing: 10...

Yesterday was a special day for Razdolna School: it had a high school graduate for the third time in the school's 25 year histo ry. Th...

We are back home: the evacuation has been lifted, the road is open again, the buses are shuttling kids to school and life returns to normal...

Like so many places in Alaska, the most popular ones are often the most nondescript, and someone not in the know wouldn't even think of...

This is the area where the roadblock was set up and is the general area the fire started from a downed powerline Tuesday afternoon. Many are...