Life in Alaska — A View From Homer

Many of my regular blog readers noticed that I took a few months off last fall from blogging. After three years of nearly weekly blog entri...

One of the standards of living in Ho mer is the ice. Oftentimes for months at a time there will be 6 inches or more of ice coating all the ...

As principal at the local high school, my husband gets the opportunity to travel with sports teams, acting as the official liaison for the d...

In 3 years of living here, we've never gotten to Beluga Lake in Homer during the 3-5 day window in early winter when the lake freezes ov...

Two events have changed our perspective this fall: my husband got the assistant principal job at Homer High School and we got an exchange s...

We got dumped with nearly three feet of snow this past weekend in the Homer area, so downhill skiing and snowboarding enthusiasts were itchi...

Fr. Nathan from Ohio is the founder of the Eagle Eye Retreats which he puts on for young adults around the country each summer. This is his...