Scribblings

Never use rover.com for your pet sitting needs

DON’T TRUST OR USE ROVER.COM. AND FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR PETS, STAY AWAY FROM A HOUSE SITTER NAMED BROOK WHO WORKS FOR THEM.
Just fair warning to anyone planning on ever using a service called rover.com for pet sitting while they are out of town… DON’T! Unless you luck out and get a good sitter, this service will not help you out at all. The sitter I got from them (named Brook here in Anchorage and you should avoid her like the plague if you love your animals) left my animals with no food or water or didn’t give Continue reading →

Columns 2017

Would we have the strength

Sometimes we spend an inordinate amount of time in America gazing at our navels without really paying attention to the rest of the world. It’s not that we don’t have our own tragedies = Las Vegas will remain with us for a long, long time. But we sometimes don’t do much more than take a passing glance at the horrors happening in other parts of the world.

In many ways that makes sense. What touches us directly is always going to have more of an impact than something that touches people far away with strange names, strange customs and strange Continue reading →