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THE ALASKAN INVASION: Happy 20th Megan & Rob
THE ALASKAN INVASION: Happy 20th Megan & Rob

THE ALASKAN INVASION: Happy 20th Megan & Rob

November 27, 2015 Tara Neilson 0

What’s two thousand plus air miles when your only sister is getting married? Let’s just leave aside her questionable decision to abandon Alaska for Florida’s sunnier climes. Family loyalty outweighed lame-o life choices.     That was […]

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Which Is Worse? Running Out Of Daylight Or Running Out Of Water? Both!

Which Is Worse? Running Out Of Daylight Or Running Out Of Water? Both!

November 23, 2015 Tara Neilson 0

Before anyone questions why I’d do another post about the waterline, just imagine yourself for a moment living your entire life, except for brief interruptions, without indoor plumbing from the age of nine until you […]

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GUEST BLOG: ROMI (my mom) "Kindred Spirits"

GUEST BLOG: ROMI (my mom) “Kindred Spirits”

November 20, 2015 Tara Neilson 0

My earliest memories are of deer.     I was a toddler when daddy brought home an orphaned fawn to the logging camp we lived in at the time, in the mountains of Montana.     Its favorite food […]

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The question was: how to move a building from point A to point B in the bush with only one or two men? In 2006 longtime Meyers Chuck residents Ed and Marian Glenz sold their [...]
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