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I get so excited when someone from my past contacts me about visiting Alaska for the first time. I revert to my travel agent days and have to restrain myself from boring them with minutia about all of the beautiful and diverse towns I've seen along the coast of Alaska. For 20 years my husband and I lived aboard and operated two beautiful old wooden salmon tenders. It was always Ron's dream to get into tendering for the commercial fishing industry. Tenders don't catch fish; we haul fish. After I...
“Can you write up some instructions for my heirs, telling them everything they need to do when I’m gone?” I get asked this question periodically and the answer is always no. There are so many things a person has to do when their loved one has passed that I would have to write up more than just a few pages. In fact, given that circumstances may have changed by the time the client is deceased, in order to cover all the possibilities, I would basically have to write a book. I suppose I could write...
Q. Which is best for home use, an inkjet or laser printer? A. The answer depends a great deal on what you want to print. There are tradeoffs that will narrow down your options quickly. If you want to print in color, inkjet is a clear winner. But color printing can be expensive. This reality will reveal itself slowly, around the time you discover the price for replacement ink cartridges. If you regularly print high-quality photo images, you’ll find ink costs probably surpass the cost of a photo lab. It is a balance between cost and c...
Only a four-mile drive to Homer enters you into a world of birds. At the Inspiration Ridge Preserve, walk through forests, bogs, meadows, ponds, and creeks, all part of the 693 acres of critical wildlife habitat best known for its visiting summer population of sandhill cranes. The legacy stewardship of the property of Nina Faust and the late Ed Bailey is continued by the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, which offers guided tours. The 1.5-hour tour covers about two miles at a leisurely pace...
Mount Gordon Lyon is in the Chugach Mountains about 14 miles northeast of Anchorage. You can see it with the naked eye. Look closer. See the steeply ascending slash across the entire mountain, from the bottom left to the top right? That is the road to the top. Very narrow, a largely useless guardrail when there is one at all, not for the squeamish. It leads to where they stationed the nuclear weapons. Perched on the very top of the mountain, also visible to the naked eye, are two white domes, on...
The Valley Quilters Guild (VQG) is a nonprofit organization committed to enhancing the educational and charitable aspects of quilting. The mission of Valley Quilters Guild is to promote quilt-making and foster an appreciation for quilts while enhancing members' knowledge of quilting techniques and history. One of the significant enterprises this year benefits Quilts of Valor® (QOV) which operates in the Mat-Su Borough through two dedicated groups: The Forget-Me-Not Quilters of Alaska and...
Many of us as children may have wondered what's going on inside the mind of an animal-what are they thinking and feeling? Most animal researchers study science because of their fascination with animals, but for a long time scientific norms made it impossible to even raise the question of animal consciousness without losing scientific credibility. Fortunately, those days have ended, thanks in large part to pioneering work by scientists such as Donald Griffin, who argued from the 1980s to his...
Hospice is not a place. And hospice care is not just about those who are dying. Hospice is a comprehensive, compassionate kind of care that focuses on living-hospice is about living as fully as possible, surrounded by family and friends, up until the end of life. Palliative care brings this special philosophy of care to people earlier in the course of a serious illness. Did you know that Hospice of Anchorage is a volunteer hospice? Did you know there are three Medicare hospice providers serving...
WASHINGTON—The U.S. House approved the “big, beautiful bill” on May 22 that Republican leaders spent months negotiating with centrists and far-right members of the party—two distinct factions that hold vastly different policy goals—over intense opposition from Democrats. The 215-214 vote ships the package to the Senate, where GOP lawmakers are expected to rewrite much of it, before sending it back across the Capitol for final approval, a process likely to stretch through the summer. President Donald Trump, who said he backed the House version,...
June is packed with events as Alaskans get the most amount of sunshine of the year this month. The summer solstice is June 20 at 6:41 p.m. Alaska time.. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/anchorage?month=6 You can get out and enjoy the summer through a variety of activities. … An event to bring metaphorical sunshine into your life takes place June 6. The Forget-me-not Chorus, a program of Alzheimer’s Resource of Alaska, is performing its spring concert at the Anchorage Senior Activity Center Ballroom. Complimentary refreshments will be ser...
Established in 1968, OPAG is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving services, developing programs, educating, promoting and implementing changes to help Alaska seniors live healthy, productive lives. Current programs: - publish the monthly Senior Voice newspaper - publish and distribute the Directory for Older Alaskans senior resource directory - provide information and referral services for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Health Care Act and other senior issues - organize monthly Providers' Breakfast...
