The New Kid
Week 1 at a New School: A Rocky Start My 13-year old son Anders had just started at his new middle school. I was there …
Hiding in Alaska with a Criminal Past
It is dark as night and 14 below zero on this winter morning in Alaska, and I’m driving my son to school. There are no …
Teaching Kids About Guns; Family’s First Lesson in Firearms
A 14-month-old child stumbles around a coffee table clinging to it as he focuses on the exciting objects on top; brightly colored blocks, soft squeaky …
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3 Perfectly Alaskan Gifts
At first glance, these antlers seemed like the perfect stocking stuffers to take back to my family in Boulder this Christmas. But then I saw …
Aboard the National Geographic Explorer in Antarctica
My sister’s 40th was coming up. To celebrate such a milestone birthday, I suggested we go for Sushi, but she said she’d rather go to Antartica. …
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They Have Uber Here, His name is Harry
We were in the middle of watching “Jexi” (we see every movie that comes to town) when my husband got a call from the ER. …
Can You Outrun a Bear?
Only a couple of months living in our new home on the Kenai Peninsula and already I had accumulated a total of one friend. Her …