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Stay tuned for more thoughts on Anchorage’s 2012 Fur Rendezvous Festival, but for now, enjoy this video from today’s adventures in 10 degrees above Fahrenheit. This video includes [...]

When I first got on the plane 7 weeks ago to fly to Alaska, it wasn’t until my 4th leg of the trip that I could actually get my hands on a copy of Alaska Airlines Magazine. To my surprise, [...]

I’m a naturally curious person and one way I try to make sense of new experiences in the world is through story. When I’m exploring a new city, that seems to manifest most readily by [...]

Today’s post veers from Anchorage for a moment because TRACHODON: A Dinosaur of a Little Magazine is having a pre-sale for Issue 4. Of all the literary magazines I have (and do still) work [...]

Alaska’s soldiers march in Anchorage, Bunny Boots & all. Alaskans are serious about their winter boots and for good reason. Down in Southeast, I stood out because I didn’t own [...]

I spent some time flipping through primary source material this weekend, searching for first-hand impressions of early Anchorage. Back in the 19-teens, Anchorage was just a tent city of folks [...]

Delaney Park isn’t far from where I’m dogsitting and, at first glance, a non-Alaskan might think that it was truly forward-thinking of the city of Anchorage to designate five [...]

Whenever I go to a new city, I like to do a little compare and contrast. It’s fun to imagine how a place looked in its early days of settlement–or even before that, how a place might [...]

The house I’m staying in is near a part of town called Bootlegger Cove. There’s a street by that name, a neighborhood by that name, and part of a body of water by that name as well. [...]

And so there is walking. Always the walking–part of my daily movement, part of my daily practice as a writer, part of my thinking process. Sometimes it’s peaceful and wandering. Other [...]