One of the things I miss most about Alaska is Big Lake. From when I was born until about 1989, we had a cabin on Long Island, which I’ve written about previously in these pages. Now, Alaska has four distinct seasons (although spring is ugly, summer is short, and fall is a few weeks of…
Holland America Line, which owns and operates the McKinley Chalet Resort at the entrance of Denali National Park in Alaska, cut the ribbon Monday on a new dining, entertainment, and mixed-use concept at the hotel named Denali Square. To celebrate the opening, Holland America Line presented the Denali Borough School District with a $20,000 donation which will be spent on modernizing…
I recently went back to Anchorage for the first time in six years. I flew Delta from Seattle, and I kept thinking how weird it was, because the Delta I remembered from Anchorage hadn’t flown to Anchorage from Seattle in daylight hours since the early 1990s. It must have felt even more strange for the…
I’m coming back to Anchorage, and I’m to sure what I’ll find.
Ingratitude must be a universal emotion among children, and the primary manifestation of this is that despite free room and board, they’re constantly looking for alternate accommodations to call their own. Couch forts, play houses, tree houses, secret blanket and furniture constructions in basements or attics – the want of an independent domain is one…
I’m not usually drunk at midnight on New Year’s Eve. But I’m usually blackout drunk by 1 AM on New Year’s Day. I think this is because I typically buy good Champagne (Dom Perignon or Veuve Clicquot) for the party, and when I notice the majority of the guests have taken only a sip of…
At my Grandfather’s funeral, I couldn’t keep my fingers out of the 7 Layer Dip. It was November 1990, a funeral home in Palmer, Alaska (I don’t remember which) and it was cold. I don’t remember whether somebody had made the dip or whether it was store bought, although he was originally from Wisconsin and…
