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Jessica who? And why should I care?

AOL has a headline about someone named Jessica Simpson snubbing a GOP fundraiser. At least, I think that’s the story. I didn’t read past the headlines because 1. I don’t care and 2. I don’t care.  If people want an inane and ultimtely useless headline, they should just ponder why I am going to die so poor while someone like Jessica Simpson (who does something that has apparently made her famous but I can’t figure out what it is) is going to die very rich.  Oh God!  Do you think it’s the blond bimbo factor?  I was never good at

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Response to column

I received a very thought provoking e-mail to my column about going back to Barrow.  It’s not a perfect world and I didn’t mean my column to imply that it was some kind of utopia. But my belief is that people in the bush are fighting for their lives in ways we can barely imagine because we live in the same culture we were raised in and can’t begin to understand what it’s like to try and straddle both worlds.

Anyhow, this was my response to the e-mail.  I think the writer had some good points about the problems in

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Columns 2006

You can go home again

There is little in this world that is as brilliantly white as the tundra in spring when the sun is shinning brightly.  In fact, the only thing that can possibly be called whiter is the pack ice shimmering under that same insane sun.  Like everything else in life, it doesn’t necessarily look that white when you get up close to it.  In fact, the pack ice becomes a jumble of old ice, new ice, blue ice and grey ice, boulders tumbled around like grains of sand kicked by a child on a beach. 

This year, Barrow has had some storms

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The military has the right idea

Uniforms!  I wore them through grade school and high school and didn’t realize at the time that it was a period of Nirvana in my life that would never be reproduced once I had to make clothing choices.  If we all had to wear uniforms, I wouldn’t have to worry if there was ever a time purple and orange went together and whether my sister would get little pains in her shoulders if I tried to pair them into an attractive ensemble.  OK, I lied about the attractive part. I’d wear it if I thought it covered me enough to

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correction on the column date…again

Another change – the column will appear as usual tomorrow. The change to Friday has been reversed and it’s now on for its regular day. Sorry for the confusion.  But I do now know how to find something on my website that hasn’t been published yet and edit it. So ultimately it’s been a fruitful experience (says Pollyanna).

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FYI this week’s column

For all my regular readers, all nine of you, my column won’t appear in the paper on Wednesday. This week only it’s been moved to Friday. So, those of you reading it weekly on this site, look for it to pop up here sometime on Friday afternoon.

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But seriously folks…..

As the pundits wax eloquent about our current president winning hands down as the worse president ever, I wonder how anyone could have doubted this would be the inevitable result of a president who most closely resembles Alfred E. Newman in both looks and mentality.

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I did it!

As of yesterday, all the columns I’ve written going back to 2000 – at least, all I could find – are now archived on the site. So have fun reading back through what I’ve said about you in the past and see if it gives you some hint about what I might say in the future.  To my family, I can only say….well, anything to sell a column.  You understand, right?

As for the material before 2000, first I’d have to find the damn floppy disks, then I’d have to find someplace that could read them and convert them to

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Oh god I’ve got to go shopping for clothes…shoot me, shoot me now!

I think that pretty much sums up my attitude towards clothes and shopping. I am writing this note even as I should be putting a bra on in preparation for meeting Aubie at Value Village where she will attempt to outfit me with something to wear to the many graduations and weddings coming up in my near future.  Aubie is patient and gentle about this and yet I still want to run sobbing from the store. What’s wrong with clean jeans and a tasteful T-shirt? Why does clothing have to be so complicated?  and uncomfortable?  and generally icky?

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So much concern, so little solution

Seems my column on the young man in Anchorage who killed a father of three with his car while being chased by police has really hit a sore spot. I’ve been fielding calls and e-mails since it appeared. People wonder what to do and I have to admit that after over 20 years in the field, I haven’t a clue. My solutions are mostly unconstitutional and involve forced sterilization and no second chances on getting kids back.  I think the solutions would work but would wreak more havoc with our constitutional guarantees than the current administration has managed to do

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