This Alaskan's Life

Yesterday I took a shovel and machete to the snow on my roof. Today I'm taking the shovel and machete to my latest novel. I had some pro...

Last year Pete Kaiser delivered The Raven's Gift to Nome in the 2011 Iditarod. This year Pete is currently in 6th place with a serious s...

This is a poem I wrote a while back in the long tradition of Robert Service, but with an Alaskan twist.  Perhaps this might also serve as a ...

My poem for you today was published in Chronogram and won the Alaska Public Radio Network's poem of the year several years back. I read...

The Ghost in the Parka Let me share with you a Halloween haunting back when I lived in one of the little Yup’ik villages on the tund...

I fell off the blog wagon for a while. Funny how life does that. For today, just a poem. Something I wrote a while back.  These were all r...