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Autumn Wings Festival

Saturday, August 14

Noon to 4:00 pm

15510 Old Seward Hwy (take the Rabbit Creek exit)

Bird TLC presents their annual Autumn Wings Festival.  Join the fun from noon to four, Saturday, August 14, to celebrate autumn, the outdoors and Alaska’s wild birds.  See wild eagles, owls, hawks and ravens up close.  Experience a falconry demonstration, shop the outdoor sculpture at the art show, and get close to a porcupine.  Featuring outdoor and wildlife organizations, presentations, a bird calling contest, art, food, music and fun.  Don’t miss the Eagle release @ 3:30.  Rabbit Creek exit east to

The recent ruling in California that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional has raised an interesting variety of hues and cries from the general populace. Some concerns raised are clearly heartfelt sentiments by people truly threatened by the prospect of gay marriage. Other concerns raised leave me wondering what constitution people studied in school.

If, in fact, this issue has more to do with a particular religious code than any civil issue, I have to ask why government is involved at all since government really shouldn’t be codifying religious strictures. Isn’t that what happens in places like Iran where Sharia is the

I met him only a few times and that was way back when we were both young in the late 70s and early 80s. So there is nothing I can add to all the speeches and remembrances being posted throughout Alaska blogs about him except to say that whether you liked him or not… and believe it or not, there were actually some Alaskans who didn’t… he was a force of nature that changed this state from a backwater in America’s patchwork quilt of states to a state that was still a backwater as far as most of America was

Turns out that the pus coming from Blue’s eye was not the result of me not noticing an abscess and pain over many weeks. No, it was the result of another little tiff she had with Blondie over the droppings on the bottom of the bird cage.

Blue and Blondie had a snarly moment on Friday that I thought did not involve any contact as much as a lot of growly posturing. But apparently Blondie managed to nip Blue on the inside of her mouth again. This time, possibly due to the fact that the bite was probably mixed with

Blue’s right eye started putting out copious amounts of stuff that shouldn’t be in her eye approximately 30 seconds after her regular vet’s office closed for the weekend so that – mother guilt being what it is – I ended up at Pet Emergency…. a wonderful group with a wonderful service for which you pay wondrous amounts.

Was watching the Colbert Report and Stephen mentioned that some (I think) Internet channel that carries Catholic programming is trying to connect with the kids by using 3 D technology.

Here’s a thought. How about they update their antiquated attitude towards women and condoms before the buy into 3D?

My sister, who works in group sales for a casino in Atlantic City, was showing the property to a potential client. As she pointed out the wonders of the room they were in, her skirt fell off. Yep, off. Completely down around the ankles moment.

For some reason, I smiled the whole day after I heard that.

I may never be stylish, but the advantage of elastic waistbands is they don’t fall down.

When I call Blue to go out and she doesn’t want to, her latest attempt to avoid the inevitable is to stand frozen in the doorway and simply stare at me with an unblinking gaze. There is not the slightest rustle or movement in her. She is clearly convinced that if she stands that way long enough, I won’t know she’s there because she will be invisible. I have timed this frozen stance and she can keep it up for five minutes before even having to blink if, in so doing, she avoids the dreaded outdoors. When I finally have

It’s a toss up between Sarah Palin’s autobiography being a best seller or the fact that a 16 year old kid named Justin Beiber is writing a memoir. I can’t wait to hear about his toilet training days.

I don’t think I’m what you’d really call a tree hugger. The thought of hugging trees honestly makes me very nervous. I mean, they have bugs and insects and sap and all that icky foreign stuff a city kid like me learned to fear at birth. When you consider I left the city for Barrow, where no trees have grown for a very long time, you can understand that my adult life has not exactly been filled with trees either.

However, I am a firm believer in respecting nature and the great outdoors because without trees we would run short