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Minister’s Message: Just be in heavenly peace …

I don’t know what your to-do lists look like these days, but I hope and pray that you…

Teri Robl's German chocolate cookies, as seen here on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, in the kitchen of her Homer, Alaska, home. (Photo by Teri Robl)

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Kachemak Cuisine: Try these scrumptious chocolate cookie, cake recipes

This German chocolate cake cookie recipe caught my eye this holiday season.

Packing the dough in a bread pan gives the cookie a thin, rectangular shape, photographed on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kalifornsky Kitchen: Festive without the fuss

Now that I’m an adult, I’ve realized I hate decorating cookies and I’m not good at it either.

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Unhinged Alaska: A special friend’s wish for Santa

It’s hard to recall a year of such blanket angst and quandary, yet, somehow, someway, there’s always a…

Four-year-old Lowell Fair indicates the backseat of the Fair family stationwagon during a 1972 photo-op set up by his father. (Photo courtesy of the Fair Family Collection)

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Sometimes you just gotta laugh

This is the story of one of my favorite family photographs.

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Minister’s Message: It’s all in the waiting

By Frank Alioto

My family gathers on Zoom to discuss our foraged finds at Forage Fest 2020, on Dec. 3 2020, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Foraging for gifts

Bringing a personal twist to holiday giving

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“Tanner Crab with Barnacles” is one of the wood sculptural pieces in Kim Schuster’s exhibit, “Science Observed Through Art: Unsung Species,” as seen on Friday at Ptarmigan Arts in Homer.

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Artist and scientist seeks to make science accessible through sculptures, paintings

Homer artist wants to spotlight marine animals that aren’t well known or well understood.

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Minister’s Message: The blessings and benefits of God’s addition

God has no trouble with math, especially addition.

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Amanda Kelly’s “Bunnell Street Sunrise” (above) and Natalie Farren’s “Hummingbird” are two of the pieces in “Fun with 5x7” show at the Homer Council on the Arts, on display through Dec. 17.

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‘Fun with 5×7’ show at Homer Council on the Arts inspires creators to think small

The show went up on Nov. 6 and continues through Dec. 17.

Ginger molasses cookies make for a delicious, chewy way to spread holiday cheer to family and friends isolated during the pandemic, photographed on Nov. 30, 2020, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Festive, yummy and low-key

Ginger molasses cookies make the perfect holiday treat

Virginia Walters (Courtesy photo)

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Heading into the homestretch

Christmas came to Kenai on schedule, if a little modified and subdued from years past.

A simple and classic spice cake made for a friend’s birthday, photographed on Oct. 21, 2020, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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A simple spice cake for a pared-down Thanksgiving

I know Thanksgiving this year won’t be the same.

Will Morrow (courtesy)

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Getting old is hard to do

Based on the survey questions, I’ve apparently been old for a while now

Several pages from David Brame's "After the Rain," adapted from Nnedi Okorafor’s short story “On the Road.” (Photo courtesy David Brame)

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New Homer creator brings Afrofuturism to town

David Brame’s new graphic novel will be published in January

Essential ingredients for my family’s lemon cake recipe, photographed on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kalifornsky Kitchen: Great-grandma’s lemon cake

It’s not much, but it’s also everything.

Nick Varney

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Unhinged Alaska: A guide to the seasons

Figuring out the signs of seasonal change is easy, right?

Friends of Elmer Gaede effect repairs to the doctor’s Maule Rocket airplane, which crashed a short distance from Forest Lane between Soldotna and Sterling on Aug. 2, 1967. The airplane was eventually made “fly-able” again and was sold in the early 1970s. (Photo courtesy of the Gaede Collection)

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Dr. Gaede drops in, Part 2

By Clark Fair

A match latte is on display on Jan. 3, 2019 at Brother’s Cafe, in Kenai, Alaska.

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Kalifornsky Kitchen: Something warm please

I’m normally not a warm drink person.

A row of dyed silk wall hangings shows how common Alaska plants found on the lower Kenai Peninsula can be used to make organic dyes, as seen here Tuesday. The hangings are included in Elissa Pettibone’s exhibit, “Swatches,” showing at Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer.
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‘Swatches’ explores art of organic dyeing using native plants

Pettibone finds magic in fireweed, other common plants