Life in Alaska — A View From Homer

A month or so ago the people up the road from us got a windmill (that's an archaic term that I'm not sure is used anymore). Then we...

"Alaska is the Last Place on Earth I Wanted to Live ." This is the way I start the story when I tell people how we ended up in Ala...

When we were house shopping a few months ago, one of the things that struck us as odd is that most places we looked at had cisterns rather ...

This is a blog entry that has been weighing on my mind for 6 months, remaining unwritten in my mind since we decided to homeschool our kids ...

This is one of those quirky things that seems so "Homer". For the sixth year now the Homer Theatre has had a Documentary Film Fes...

What with the death of our nephew a couple weeks ago, moose hunting, classes beginning, starting homeschooling my kids and homeowner challen...

Just as we talk about apple pie being American, when one talks about what Alaskans do, moose hunting tops the list. Thus, when my uncle of...