Yelp review: Mom & Dad’s Great Alaskan Bed & Breakfast
The menu is very limited and you never know what you’re going to get, although it almost always involves salmon.
Honing your Alaskulinity with the help of some salmon
A step-by-step guide to preparing Spontaneous Salmon for 20 (and counting) on a gloomy Alaska Sunday.
Reflections from an improbable gardener in Juneau
My first attempt at a Juneau garden is actually bearing fruit, proving that gardening isn’t just for middle-aged women or foppish 17th-century French kings anymore.
Hairy dilemma: How much beard to grow?
Facing the toughest choice in bearding: to trim or not to trim?
The ugly truth about spring cleaning in Alaska
This time of year, every speck of dirt casts a shadow. Now in sunlight, my kitchen floor looks like a crime scene all taped off for forensic spatter analysis.
From tourist season to PFD season, Alaska gets way beyond winter, spring, summer and fall
Among Alaska's diverse seasonal possibilities: Construction Season, Rainy Season, PFD Season, Deck-Staining Season.
Why stop with musher cellphones? Get tech savvy, Iditarod.
Two-way communication will be just the tip of the dog turd for Alaska's Last Great Race in the era of improved mushing technology.
What a year, what a year. Thank God we can leave 2016 behind.
An Alaska year in review that may leave Alaskans glad to get on with 2017.
Great Alaska Hanukkah — or 'Alaskanukkah'
Living in the middle of a boreal forest, you’re literally surrounded by Christmas trees — trees you tell your children they cannot have.
Kicked in the nuptials: Advice for an Alaska marriage
If you really want to turn your woman on in bed, try changing the snow tires. Or cleaning out the crawl space. And take off that fish blood-stained hoodie.
Nothing makes you appreciate living here like leaving here
The difference between Alaska and the Lower 48 appears most noticeable whenever I visit the Lower 48, land of skinny jeans and 12-lane highways, Red Lobster and zoning laws.
Pot junkie's growing his own now
Go ahead, call me a potato head. Guilty as charged. I like them whipped, I like them chipped. I like them hashed, I like them smashed. I like them fried, grilled boiled, broiled, baked.