What Do I Know?

 Back in April I wrote about the School Board meeting when the Board voted to close  Lake Otis, Fire Lake, and Campbell Stem schools. Tues...

  Our front yard (south facing) no longer has any snow.  The tulips have poked out of the ground in a bed in front along the house.  Back ya...

Break up has arrived in Anchorage.  It waited until almost April this year, but finally, the messy harbinger of warmer weather, of white rep...

   It's been a cold winter and it's been a snowy winter.   On March 9, 2025 - there was no snow in our back yard.  Today, March 27, ...

  March 9, 2025 March 9, 2026 If you look closely, you can see a leaning tree in the 2025 picture, upper right.  It's firewood now.   Wh...

We set the clocks ahead again last night or this morning.  And the Alaska legislature has a bill to end Daylight Savings.Again     [I suspec...

Writing about Zohran Mamdani has been on my todo list for a while.  I'm finally getting around to it on election night.   As I begin wri...

[TECH NOTE:  This post has been delayed because I’m using a new iPad 16 for our trip and the simple way to shrink photo file size on my MacB...

  I’m reading Istanbul by Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.   It’s an autobiographical look at the author, Istanbul, and Turk...

The year I studied in Göttingen, Germany, we had most of March and April off.  Hitchhiking was my main means of travel out of town, though i...

Normalize, means to make something seem normal.  It's been used a lot recently to refer to events - like school shootings and outrageous...