What Do I Know?

I got my 1971 VW Westphalia serviced by Kurt Schreiber in Wasilla for nearly 20 years until he retired.  Around that time our 25 year old va...

 I was in sunny Anchorage yesterday, not in the path of the eclipse.  But in 2019 my daughter invited us to meet her and her family to see a...

 Waste in packaging is another thing that has become normalized.  Unless it's egregious, we just wade our way through it, without even t...

 I generally don't write letters to the editor of the Anchorage Daily News (ADN).  I have a blog where I can say what I need to say.  Bu...

 March 4, 2020, we returned from a long trip with our daughter and granddaughter and assorted family members.  We'd also been to San Fra...

Mavis Nducha founded Kalahari Honey.  She died recently.  You can read more about her here. [Note:  the link goes to a site of a relative.] ...

[I'm just writing notes today.  Consider this jotting down thoughts before other things interfere.] Lots of commentators are listing cor...

Let's start off with some good news.  If you're only going to link to one of these articles, I recommend this one.   There are bette...

 Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is working hard to shine light on Republican actions to thwart democracy through covert operations.  In this previo...

 When I was relatively new to Alaska, I went to a public administration meeting downtown during the annual Fur Rendezvous.  Walking from my ...

How did we get to this point, where NPR asks a "capitalism expert" this question?  The intro was that corporations were cutting of...

When I took out the waffle mix Sunday morning, I noticed this on the box: "Great ideas often come out of tough times, and times d...

Screenshot of FB Live Coverage of Michigan Protest I watched the Michigan protests live last Wednesday and heard people complaining abo...

Over ten years ago I came across something called the Charter for the Development of the Alaska North Slope.  This post tells that story.  I...