Author: admin

I thought I’d try to see just how comfortable the jays who come to my porch for peanuts are. I usually put the peanuts out and then sit in a chair on the other side of the porch while they dive in. But last night I stood there with peanuts in my hand. Once before they had come to my hand, grabbed a peanut and then flew off. This time, one of them was bold enough to grab a peanut, toss it in his beak enough to satisfy him that this was not the one he wanted, drop it back

Well, I know now who Kanye West is.  I am not impressed. His momma should have taught him better manners.

For those of you in the Anchorage area, I’ll be at Title Wave Books from 1 to 3 today signing my book. Come on by and say hi.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… if god had meant women to wear shoes with pointed toes and four inch heels he would have given us much bigger arches and made out toes come to a point.  And no, I did not buy a pair of shoes. I was, thankfully, born without the shoe fetish that every woman on TV and in the movies seems to have. But I was in a mall for a few minutes today and passed a store with shoes in the window and wanted to run in and scream that god never

Winter has officially arrived.

Summer is over. Fall/winter has arrived. And the political season commences a full year before the elections.  Sigh… it was so nice to have nine months unencumbered by screaming political ads, gazillion political mailings and polls that aren’t really polls but just want to push you to vote a certain way by implying that the opponent eats little babies with a glass of chianti.

I think all Alaskans should stand together with me and say loudly and proudly, “Our politicians are not as bad as South Carolina’s politicians.” Finally, an issue on which we can be proud to only occupy the number two slot.

Despite my family’s greatest fears, I’ve never actually “gone” to jail. But due to the work I do, I’ve visited more jails than I ever wanted to. Here’s what struck me most about them – the clanging doors. I know this sounds like a film cliche but the sound of those doors slamming behind you and automatically locking as you go in deeper and deeper absolutely freaks me out. 

I try very hard to keep a balanced view point on the religion of Islam. But when I read continually about women being routinely flogged for such horrors as wearing slacks in public and drinking a beer in a restaurant, I think that Islam – at least as practiced by many fundamentalist countries in the mid-East and Africa – deserves to disappear from the face of this earth sooner rather than later and the men who follow those beliefs deserve to be banished to a land full of men and only men since they clearly have no right to the