Sundays
Photo by Sam Harrel
Dog massage class lets Fido relax after a ruff day
May 4, 2008
Ten women and their canine companions of various sizes and breeds gathered last Wednesday for the second “Tails A Waggin” dog massage class taught by Tarika Lea, the education director of the School of Integrating Shiatsu.
Book Reviews
‘The Bin Ladens’ a rich look at family that built Saudi Arabia
Published May 11, 2008
“The Bin Ladens” is a multigenerational epic of two concentric clans — the house of Saud, and the bin Ladens who built the kingdom’s palaces, road projects, airports and religious shrines.
Alaska Science Forum
Shishmaref school is home to some very lost sparrows
Published May 4, 2008
This just in from Shishmaref science teacher Ken Stenek: On this late April day, two house sparrows are singing their little hearts out while perched on the metal roof of the Shishmaref School.
Scott McCrea
‘Footloose’: Clearly the greatest movie soundtrack of all time
Published May 11, 2008
I was excited to hear when fellow News-Miner columnist Theresa Bakker was planning to write last year about what she considered to be one of the best soundtrack albums of all time. “Wow,” was my reaction upon hearing of her topic. “Theresa is going to write about the soundtrack to ‘Footloose’?”
Theresa Bakker
Visit from lacewing brings thoughts of spring, mortality
Published May 4, 2008
Something moved in the corner of the window as I washed my hands. My eyes were relaxed into a soft focus so as not to see the dirty dishes piled up in the sink. After a long winter with no buzzing or beating of wings to lull me into submission, the skittering bug caught my attention right away.
Interior Gardening
Learning how to grow corn — trip to Indiana not included
Published May 11, 2008
Every summer, I fantasize about moving to Indiana. There I could live in an old farmhouse and look out my kitchen window onto a quarter-acre of corn, all mine and close enough that the cobs could be cooked and eaten within minutes of picking.
Judith Kleinfeld
For a surprising number of Americans, every day is Mother’s Day
Published May 11, 2008
I used to think I was closer to my three adult children than most other parents. My closeness to my adult children turns out to be nothing special.
In The Bush
Shopping for Icelandic horses requires some exotic expeditions
Published May 4, 2008
“Here we are,” I thought to myself as sleet plastered my glasses. “Royally stuck in overflow, and it’s NOT my fault!”
Judy Ferguson
Glavinovich learned about gold mining on the beaches of old Nome
Published May 4, 2008
Today, with gold hovering at $1,000 an ounce, Paul Glavinovich, son of a former manager of Nome’s gold dredges, remembered Nome’s historic treasure-scooping boats, cousins to the Fairbanks dredges.
Archives
Blame the trees, and pollen season, for that runny nose
Published May 11, 2008
With your next breath of spring air, you’ll pull dozens of invaders through your nose. These intruders may make your nose drip and your eyes red and watery.
A woman among trappers
Writer visits with Ida Martin, decades after her death
Published May 11, 2008
Ida Martin had been dead for decades when I met her. I met her through through my dad, Fabian Carey, in the pages of a memoir left unfinished when he died in 1975. An anecdote about her captured my imagination.
Unusually snowy April weather blanketed most of Alaska
Published May 11, 2008
It was a snowy April across Alaska, in what is normally one of the driest months of the year.
North to Alaska
Motorcyclist recounts summer trip to Washington to 49th state
Published April 27, 2008
Tired of stressing about what your pale skin and flabby muscles are going to look like on the beach during your summer vacation? Then do what I did. Trade in your shorts for a pair of long underwear, jump on your motorcycle and head north to Alaska.
Kings of the Mountains
Arctic Man means extreme playtime for skiers, snowmachiners
Published April 20, 2008
The Arctic Man Ski and Sno-Go Classic is the kind of event that could only have been inspired by a dare.
Two snowboarders with Fairbanks ties try to conquer The North Face Masters
Published April 13, 2008
While scanning the start list for The North Face Masters, a big mountain snowboarding competition held at Alyeska Resort last week, one would have noticed two Fairbanks ski areas listed among the other riders’ much more impressive home mountains: Cleary Summit and Moose Mountain.
Interior Scrapbook
Published April 13, 2008
L.E. Robertson shows a view of “Watching the Floods at Fairbanks Alaska July 6th, 1905” in this great photo of waterfront Fairbanks.
Fairbanks gets a warm, dry March, unlike some neighbors
Published April 13, 2008
March brought warm and dry conditions for Alaska’s midsection, while cool and wet conditions prevailed for the eastern and western ends of the state.
