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Unhinged Alaska: The Winter Olympics Sleep Deprivation Syndrome
It has taken a few weeks but I can finally walk a few steps without falling asleep while…
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Unhinged Alaska: Shaken, not stirred
So, there I was all kicked back in my recliner surfing the aging buffet of recycled movies on…
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Unhinged Alaska: High Arctic memories
An old buddy contacted me just after the first of the year and I was a bit stunned…
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Unhinged Alaska: Let’s try this again, Santa
Dear St. Nicholas, I’m certain that you are going to look at the return address before opening this…
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Unhinged Alaska: Murder most fowl on the Butterball Express
What is it about turkeys that cause so much chaos around the holidays? Some people go ape trying…
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Unhinged Alaska: Hitchcock would be embarrassed
There is something seriously askew in our little piece of paradise when it comes to the bird population…
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Unhinged Alaska: When the cranes split, chaos ensues
Last Sunday morning while I was deeply engrossed in a Don Wilson’s novel called “The Cartel,” my bride…
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Unhinged Alaska: The pragmatic wife and the seasoned piscatorian
I can’t recall exactly how many times through the years I’ve been asked, “What the #*%^ is so…
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Unhinged Alaska: The fish assassin
When the fish are running, I have two friends who come close to losing their collective minds. Turk’s…
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Unhinged Alaska: Rusty skills and a petulant pup
The cabin was steeped in an early morn nippiness spawned by a canopy of dank clouds weeping tiresome…
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Unhinged Alaska: What a weekend!
Just beyond our cabin’s door the sun is strong-arming its way through a feathery overcast while the bay…
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Unhinged Alaska
By the time you read this, the 25th Annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival will be winding down. Over…
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Unhinged Alaska: Officially it’s spring, so now what?
After several weeks of intense sunshine showering the landscape with rays of cold so intense that the official…
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Unhinged Alaska: Yo, Mother Nature, you need a nap
Last month I inferred that Old Man Winter was behaving like a borderline psychotic suffering conflicting flashbacks inclusive…
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Unhinged Alaska: The grump is back and hungover
Last spring I wrote a column titled “Something wicked this way comes”. It was about a reccurring spring…
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Alaska Unhinged: Poking the bear
I was standing on the deck this week admiring a shifting cloak of deep blue sliding over the…
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Unhinged Alaska: A special kind of Christmas tea
Once again Christmas and the advent of a new year are peeking over the horizon and, once again,…
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Unhinged Alaska: Aw, come on now!
During the last couple of months, certain people were starting to think we were on the verge of…
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Unhinged Alaska: Halloween came early this year
I’ve always been a big fan of October. I’m certainly not an art connoisseur but when nature paints…
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Unhinged Alaska: The dawning of dusk
Once again we find ourselves beyond the autumn equinox where the sunset of summer continues its spiral deeper…