Well, I thought I had retired from journalism… I’m now the volunteer editor for the Homer Independent Press. We went live on New Year’s Day. homerindependentpress.com/2026/01/01/e...

Protesters showed up on a sunny but chilly day for the #RemoveTheRegime rally in Homer, Alaska.

Holy coronal mass ejection! I think these are the most amazing auroras I’ve seen in 45 years in Alaska! Taken from Diamond Ridge, Homer, Alaska, looking all directions. #auroras #NorthernLights

When I lived in Florida I knew about snow but no way one told me about the magic of hoar frost. Photos taken with a #LensBaby Sweet 22 lens.

About 700 people showed up for the #NoKings protest in Homer, Alaska. That’s almost 5% of the population on the Southern Kenai Peninsula.

Some of the best reporting on l’affair Vance has been by @matt.akmemo.com . Holly Todd’s cartoon here is wonderful. mailchi.mp/thealaskacur...

@nytimes.com reports on the resignation of four Alaska journalists. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Oh no! I’ve been scolded by Rep. Delores Umbridge. alaskawatchman.com/2025/10/02/r...

Here in Homer, Alaska, yet another media corporation has bent the knee because a conservative Republican Representative, Sarah Vance, did not like how the Homer News covered a vigil for Charlie Kirk. But Alaska reporters still have integrity. #indivisible www.juneauindependent.com/post/editor-...

More on l’affaire Vance in which reporter Eric Stone interviews me. My quote: “I don't think newspapers should be intimidated by their government. I think the government should be intimidated by the newspapers.” alaskapublic.org/programs/ala...

Matt Buxton nails it.

The Rep. Vance press-bullying story has been picked up by Matt Buxton of the Alaska Current. thealaskacurrent.com/2025/09/25/a...

Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, didn’t like the Homer (Alaska) News coverage of the vigil she organized for Charlie Kirk. On her official letterhead she threatened a boycott. Intimidating a free press because you don’t like what they write? I wonder who she learned that from?

Every year artist Mavis Muller coordinates the creation of a beautiful basket on a beach in Homer, Alaska—and then it’s transformed into heat and light.

“The settlement is (the) largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases. Anthropic will pay $3,000 per work to 500,000 authors.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

About 145 people showed up for the #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day rally in Homer, Alaska.

Scenes from the Freedom Over Fascism rally held in Homer, Alaska, on Saturday, July 19. @50501movement.bsky.social

Seen in Homer, Alaska.

Homer, Alaska had 700-800 attend a #NoKings protest. A Pride parade followed.

In November 1940 Paris students protested against the Nazi occupation … with fishing poles.

I bought a box of paper clips to hand out to Democracy protectors. I’m adding the paper clip to my profile. The Norwegian Resistance was bad ass. My niece’s Norwegian husband had a grandfather who was in the resistance.

About 50 people showed up on 5/30 to greet Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan at a closed visit at the Homer (Alaska) Senior Center. They protested possible cuts to Medicaid. #savemedicaid #nomorekings

Signs from the #MayDay protest in Homer, Alaska. It was cold and rainy but about 50 still showed up. A blessed #Beltane to all.

Thanks to whomever on the @maddow.msnbc.com show who snagged this photo I took of the April 19 Homer, Alaska protest for tonight’s broadcast. It was a great segment on the protests in Alaska.

Signs and scenes from the April 19 protest in Homer, Alaska.

The Irish Starry Plough flag and the Alaska flag are very similar. The Alaska flag includes the North Star with the Big Dipper. I wonder if anyone has researched this connection or the influence of the Starry Plough on Benny Benson, the AK flag designer. discover.hubpages.com/politics/His...

About 500 people showed up for the #HandsOff rally in Homer, Alaska. About 10,000 live in the Homer area. #StandUpForDemocracy.

Alaska has a new newspaper, The Seward Folly, published in Seward, Alaska. My friends Marylynn and Bob Barnwell started it. I’m helping them by covering the Seward City Council. Hurray for community journalism! sewardfolly.com.

I’ve started a new column in the Homer News, “Aging Gracefully.” www.homernews.com/life/aging-g...

About 350 people showed up on International Women’s Day in Homer, Alaska, in a Stand Up for Democracy protest. #resist

Number 2,457 in “How those DOGE cuts are working out in red state America.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/c...

#AlaskaJournalists: Are you following the Associated Press guidance on using the dead president name for Denali? I can’t remember what the Alaska AP Style book pre-2015 said.

Here’s the ad Bezos didn’t want published in the @washingtonpost.com. www.commoncause.org/articles/jef...

I guess I wasn’t the only one to give Mt. McDeadPresidentWhoNeverVisitedAlaska a bad review. Google Maps turned off review posting. #Alaska #Denali

Today’s act of resistance: Leaving a 1-star review for “Mountain named after a dead president who never visited Alaska” on #GoogleMaps. #DenaliForever #Alaska #TruckFump .

Progress report, day 21 of the second Trump presidency: a sign at the Soldotna, Alaska, Fred Meyer store.

Winter carnival parades in small town Alaska are different than other northern cities. The Bossy Pants dance troupe march with the Krewe of Gambrinus, “a social and pleasure club,” in the Homer Winter Carnival Parade. This year’s theme was “Sunshine and Snowflakes.” Note the XtraTufs.

A pair of great gray owls have been hanging out at the Homer Alaska Airport. On 2/5/25 they were at the end of FAA Drive. About six photographers with huge lenses showed up. What3words location civil.tingly.headlights.

The Homer (Alaska) Bookstore owned by my wife and her partners now sells e-books through the Bookshop.org platform. Now there’s an alternative to buying from a billionaire who pals around with FOTUS. And look! They sell my novel, Truck Stop Earth. bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Trump’s executive order restricting gender-affirming surgery on teenagers begs for malicious compliance by doctors. According to this study, 97% of breast reduction surgeries were done on cisgender male teens. hsph.harvard.edu/news/gender-...

My wife’s hippeastrum bloomed so fast it knocked itself over. Fortunately, I staked it with an old fishing rod.

Fuck Google. When Google Maps makes the Denali map change, Alaskans should flood Google with corrections. “Google said it will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ and change Denali to ‘Mount McKinley.’” www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/g...

You can change the maps but you can’t stop the mountain. Denali is its name, forever and from time immemorial.

In February 1981, 40,000 Alaskans didn’t even blink at being outdoors to see Pope John II. Also, he held Mass. www.adn.com/opinions/202...

Canadian humour can be a bit too biting for tender Texans. bc.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-st...

I love this fact from Tom Kizzia’s article on Jimmy Carter. “The state Department of Labor recently ran a check to see how many current Permanent Fund dividend applicants also applied as adults in 1982, the first year of the dividend program. The answer: less than 12%.” www.adn.com/politics/202...

On March 1, 1976, Jimmy Carter spoke at New College of Florida while running for president. He made a solid stump speech and a joke explaining the gap between his sons’ and Amy’s birth (“Rosalyn and I had a fight and then made up.”). Carter was a decent and honorable man.

My sister gave me a #Lensbaby Sweet 22 lens for Christmas so of course one of the first things I photographed was a dead fish on the Homer Spit beach.

This resonates with me. My family has a long tradition of dying or falling ill over the holidays.

Because I grew up in Florida, people give me pink flamingos. Because I created a pink flamingo tree, people give me pink flamingo ornaments. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and Happy Holidays to all.