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As I was scrolling through news stories on the Internet, I saw this headline. “What diabetic dog owners need to worry about”. Thinking they meant that the dogs were diabetic, I clicked on the story to see what might be new in treating diabetics dogs since I just lost my diabetic dog Blue over Christmas. Imagine my surprise when it turned out the story was about diabetic people who owned dogs who chewed their toes off while they slept at night and they didn’t feel anything because their feet are numb. It said diabetics who sleep with their dogs should

During the summer we get a lot of orphaned baby birds at Bird TLC. Some have fallen out of nests, some had an unlucky encounter with a cat or window, some are the result of a motorist going too fast and killing their mom as she tries to cross the road.

We do our best for these little ones. Songbirds are fostered out to people who have taken a course in the care of baby birds. This program is the best sex education any parent could give to their teenager. Baby bird parents take a clutch home and care for

Friends who will soon be visiting Alaska expressed concern about driving to Talkeetna without any address to put into their GPS to guide them. I explained there is one highway heading north out of Anchorage and the only time they would have any decision at all to make would be at the Wasilla-Palmer intersection, where the could chose to go north towards Talkeetna or east towards Glenallen. I found myself saying that since Sarah Palin gets it right every time she drives from Anchorage to Wasilla, I was sure they could navigate that intersection successfully also. And I realized that

This is starting to become one of my favorite Anchorage summers to date. No unreasonably high temps… meaning nothing much over seventy and in the sixties most of the time… cloud cover to keep us cool but not a lot of rain… just enough to feed the lawn and not have to take the sprinklers out. Yep, doesn’t get much better.

I just got an invite from the Smithsonian to an affair at the Anchorage Museum with the note that is it business dress and all I can think is that they clearly have no idea that in Alaska, business dress means carharts and rubber boots.

Despite the hassle and inevitable questions about Sarah Palin, having summer visitors in Alaska has one really big advantage. It forces us to look with new eyes at the beauty and wilderness and adventure that surrounds us and participate in some of the activities that bring us closer to our land than we usually are during out routine 9 to 5 existence. I’m going to go canoeing and climb on a glacier and wander around a water fall and make a trek to Fairbanks (despite my strong feelings about their mosquitoes and heat!). I’m getting to discover yet another part

Blondie was asleep on the couch. I mean, really asleep. I had gone out and come back and she’d never moved… not when the garage doors opened and shut, not when I opened and shut the door to the house, not when I’d gone into the downstairs bird room calling her name. I stood over the couch and looked at her, eyes rolled up in her head, chest not seemingly moving and my heart stood still. I called her name. No response. I bent lower and called again. Not a twitch to be seen. I leaned down into her face

There is a reason Alaska is called The Land of the Midnight Sun. It’s because that’s when you’re apt to actually see the sun in the summer. The rest of the time it’s foggy and cloudy. Everyone who has spent even just one year in Alaska will tell you that the prettiest time of the day starts in the evening when the sun finally comes through the clouds and by midnight, things outside are gorgeous.

So I say we stop fighting nature and just join hands with her. From now on, starting in May and going through until early September,

Saudi women are not permitted to drive. If they need to go somewhere, they either have to be rich enough to keep a paid driver or have a male relative take them. I have a wonderful brother. He has two wonderful sisters. If he had had to drive us around for the past sixty years, I don’t think any of us would still be thinking the other was so wonderful. In fact, I’d be willing to bet he’d have joined the witness protection program by now.

Think of all the errands most of us run in any given day. Family

Summer in Anchorage means spending an inordinate amount of time staring into your closet trying to decide A. if you should wear your sandals with or without socks and B. if you should wear a sweatshirt over you capris and, if you do, should you still bring a jacket.