How should we be living our lives? What can we do to make them more meaningful? How will I know if I am on the… Continue reading
In spite of dissatisfaction with the city’s unilateral decision to impose vote-by-mail a few years ago, on June 9 our Assembly moved to consider mandating… Continue reading
In September 2023, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan established his own Alaska Federal Judiciary Council. Its purpose is to recommend candidates for vacancies in the U.S.… Continue reading
I have learned two important lessons in my competitive sports career. One: Be humble in your endeavors or you may be humbled by a competitor.… Continue reading
Memento mori is Latin for “remember that you will die.” This practice of contemplating our mortality was emphasized by Stoic philosophers such as Seneca and… Continue reading
I was limited on time so I pushed up the improved game trail toward a game camera I strapped to a tree sometime last year.… Continue reading
My peanut butter feeder draws a nice assortment of visitors, including chickadees, nuthatches, siskins, juncos, a hairy woodpecker, and a squirrel. Most of these also… Continue reading
We survived the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we survived the Terrible Toilet Paper Troubles. Nothing like a shortage of toilet paper to make us all take… Continue reading
My favorite restaurant in Tucson served the best chips and salsa I have ever had. Granted, I was in college when I first had them,… Continue reading
The TACO trade isn’t a new restaurant. It stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” The acronym is Wall Street’s response to his on-again-off-again tariffs. John… Continue reading
Let us practice true patience and love, trusting God is at work while we wait in the not knowing and become “instruments of God’s peace.”… Continue reading
The recent failure of activists to gain sufficient signatures to put yet another anti-cruise initiative on the ballot in October is evidence that Juneau residents… Continue reading
In early May, one of my great pleasures was watching violet-green swallows in their fast, circular flights over water (e.g., the river, Kingfisher Pond). They’d… Continue reading
I would like to take a moment to acknowledge that we are on the traditional territory of the Áakʼw Ḵwáan, the original inhabitants of Lingít… Continue reading
This is not your grandparent’s newspaper. But much like many of the newspapers that have paved the way for this little printing, hopefully those grandparents… Continue reading
The calendar says it is spring and maybe it is here. But several Juneau folks have mentioned that this is the worst spring in their… Continue reading
“If you want President Trump to succeed, this kind of skeezy stuff needs to stop,” Ben Shapiro said on his daily podcast on Monday. “I… Continue reading
