Given the lovely summer we’re having so far, I estimate I will be giving out fresh raspberries sometime in December as I don’t think they will be ripe before that.
Congressional IQ
New studies are apparently showing that Congress is not the brightest group of bulbs in any given box. I would be laughing hysterically at the fact that someone thought they needed to do a study to reach this conclusion but it hurts to laugh at something that is so sad and painful. We elect dumb people and then wonder why we get dumb legislation. It’s really not all that complicated to run a line directly between those two things.
Women have a right to fear men’s control of them
I grew up in an Italian family. Home cooking was Italian from start to finish. My mother’s idea of ethnic diversity as it related to food was making a Chung King canned Chinese dinner once a month or so.
To this day I cannot go out for Italian food without comparing it to my childhood meals. The restaurants always come up wanting. No matter how good they are, if they don’t make their Italian food the way my family did, it’s just wrong.
Childhood and family traditions are very difficult to view dispassionately. If one tradition calls for some butter
When you need a little loving and cheer
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Anchorage… Alaska’s least fashionable city and proud of it!
When I first moved to Alaska, some cynics in my family posited that I’d made the move because I’d found the only city left in America – Barrow – where there were no clothing stores so I wouldn’t have to shop. They were wrong, of course. Barrow was not the only place in America or Alaska without benefit of a clothing store. Other than that, the rest of their ruminations on my move proved to be more true than not. I considered the lack of stores in Barrow an absolute plus to the whole ambience of living in the Arctic.
It’s just wrong
It’s just wrong that it’s June and I still have to turn the furnace on in my home once a day. What the hell happened to that global warming we were promised?
Looking for something fun to do today?
This message is from Bird TLC….
We have a juvenile golden eagle that needs to go! We’ll be releasing her at Palmer Hay Flats this Sunday, June 3rd. Any and all are welcome to come. We’re planning on doing the release around 2 pm at the Cottonwood Creek Trailhead.
Here’s how to get there:
Drive into Wasilla
Turn left on Palmer-Wasilla Hwy (by Target/Fred Meyer/Johnson Tire)
Turn left at the 2nd light on Knik Goose Bay Road
Turn left on Fairview Loop Road
Fairview Loop Road turns into Hayfield Road
Go to the end, bottom of the hill. You’ll see
Ah Donald, Donald, Donald
You are everything the world hates about America and you are everything Americans hate about themselves. You are a bloviated orange balloon like creature who will be remembered by history, if at all, as a joke.
But you do bring humor to what looks to be a very dry and humorless campaign, so I guess you have some value.
Here’s my suggestion to Levi
Here’s my suggestion to Levi Johnston on how to make money and support his two children… GET AN EDUCATION AND GET A JOB! idiot…
Teaching in Bush Alaska
I work with Ilisagvik college in Barrow, the only federally recognized Tribal College in the state. It exists because the people of the North Slope have always put a premium on education. Although their educational aspirations may not always have matched reality, they never stopped trying.
While I was researching a piece for the college encouraging local students to become teachers, I heard this story from a teacher in one of the small villages outside of Barrow. This teacher is Inupiat. She is a fully accredited teacher with a four-year degree. She related how, on one of her first days