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Tuesday, November 24
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To be or not to be a candied yam on Thanksgiving
My wife tells me that it is the ultimate sacrilege to wake up grouchy on Thanksgiving morning. Yeah, whatever! I don’t know how she thinks I’m supposed to control how I awaken. When I’m deep in a dream about masterminding a daring WWII POW camp escape, I can’t just
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One Sip on a Thyme
Herbologists claim that thyme can cure neurological disorders. Evidently, a patient so afflicted is supposed to make a tea out of the stuff and then slowly sip it over the course of a day. So I guess it’s safe to say that one sip on a thyme, and we’ll all leave apnea ever after. But
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The old man and the white filly
I used to read a lot when I was a kid. Some of my favorite stories were about horses. Ironically, Ernest Hemingway was one of my favorite authors. I always resented the fact that Hemingway hadn’t written more about horses and less about more boring subjects like bullfighting and boxing and
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Termination Dust: What does it mean to you?
I had been an Alaskan for years the first time I heard the phrase “termination dust.” The guy who flung it at me so nonchalantly could tell that I was clueless, and the look of disdain that he cast upon me was enough to make me feel like a rank cheechako. I frantically processed the
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Surefire cure for boredom – hunting in Alaska
If your life is boring, go hunting. While some people feel the need to use recreational drugs or frequent nightclubs or imbibe alcohol in order to spice up their life, I can truly say that the most memorable experiences of my life have occurred on hunting trips. I wouldn’t be so arrogant as
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More Headlines
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The Bet
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Collecting and divesting
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An annoying neighbor and his ‘Unalienable Rights’
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Rite of Passage
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What’s Your Angle?
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Worst Aid Training
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The Free and the Brave
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How many Alaskans does it take to change a light bulb?
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Ban the Bears
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Broken by the Alien Slime
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An Easter Tale, Part II
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Talmai’s Encounter – An Easter Tale, Part I
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Making Memories
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Butchering the Tuther Mung
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Freestyle Sports
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Groundhog Day
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A Horse Story
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This is no cold snap – it’s an arctic death squeeze
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New Year’s makover can be risky proposition
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The Anti-Grinch Manifesto
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Winter’s chill offers opportunities for bragging rights
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Curmudgeons can be thankful people, too
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Terrible tips rebound on unsuspecting souls
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A Tale of Little America - Part 2
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A tale of Little America, part 1
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Remember when moose hunting was simple and fun?
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Cop bloopers not necessarily funny
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Alien invasion? No, it’s the Olympic Games
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‘Til Fish Do Us Part
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The Fondue Pot
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Another year older? Birthday trauma comin’ at ya
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Hamster-powered tires aren’t quite the trick to fuel economy
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Subversive terrorists lurk everywhere - even Texas!
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The Untouchables
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Breaking Up
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Ingenuity
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Zapped
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I Was There
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Fandom
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Frosty Reception
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Elections
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Winter Camping
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Clichés
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One Tiny Baby
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Memoriam
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Are you ready for winter?
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Gomer Clodhopper
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Fellowship of the Thing
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Alaskan Glossary
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Alaskan Personalities
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Green Thumb Dreams
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Bearwatchers
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Fun
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Hopeless Romantic
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Chimeras
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Glorious Litter
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Aliens
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The Torment of Spring
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Shock and outrage
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Dad’s Tools
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The Bear Facts
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Mushomania
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Moose Nose Stew
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Shopping Day
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Clean air
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Bachelor Pad
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New Year’s Revolutions
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Osama Bin Turkey, continued from December 7
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