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When you're the first person to discover a peak, you get to name it. Everyone knows this, climbers and mountaineers especially. Unless of...

Building a home in Alaska...   I’ve wasted $15,000 on contractors, architects, and structural engineers to try to get a house built on...

Northern lights in Alaska, Creamers Field, Fairbanks. Time's running out to see the northern lights. I won't get into the science of it,...

I thought I was a wild girl once. Not the boobies on the bar after Jell-O shots kind of wild, but a girl in her twenties who chose to...

I grew up in the Lower 48, and over the last decade, I’ve come to realize the differences between people who live in Alaska versus those...

A million books are published every year, and most of the heavy-lifting to get the word out on a new novel falls to the author (and by...

It sucks you in. It chews you up. It spits you out. And yet, you keep writing. The definition of insanity is continuing to do the same...

If you understood that reference, congratulations, you’re middle-aged, like me, or you raised kids who are now in their 40s-60s and...

Here’s an Idea: Okay, so, every now and then I get these weird, brilliant, flashes of genius (or maybe it’s reflux, hard to tell,...

Well, of course. If anything odd can happen in the world, Alaska's the place for it. A few weeks ago, the U.S. shot down an unidentified,...

Two days ago, a polar bear killed a woman and her one-year-old son in Wales, Alaska, an extremely remote Alaska Native village roughly 50...

Here’s what happened next. My wife is fond of saying, “We raise terrible dogs. Don’t let us train your dogs. Ever.” She’s right, of...

Our son “L” trails me over rocks and brush in the roadless wilderness of Alaska. He holds a camera in his hands, the extra one I carry on...

I SPEND MOST OF MY TIME WITH A CAMERA IN MY HANDS. Life happens in front of me, and those closest to me would say (with some amount of...

Hi Michelle, How could you do it?  How could you even consider doing it?  It is crazy.  Who in their right mind would leave Texas and...

Seems like Pastor (and I use the term loosely) Kevin Swanson is trying to step up to be the new Rev. Fred Phelps. He spoke out about the...

The following is excerpted from Chapter 19 / Teaching the Cat to Sit: Westboro protests in front of Sacred Heart of Jesus school. In an...

My book doesn’t have a whole lot to do with Alaska, so when I thought about what excerpt to post on Alaska magazine’s web site, I could...

Localized anxiety. The book is out and so am I. I’ve been asked how I feel about the whole process and haven’t had a cohesive...