Palin's Balin': Sarah Quits

The 2008 Republican candidate for vice-president, Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin, announced July 3 that she will resign from office on July 26, 2009, and “return to private life.” This was a shocking announcement coming from the high-profile Governor, considering… Read the rest

Springtime in Alaska

In this, its 50th year as a state, Alaska is getting more national attention than ever before.

Lately, Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Ted Stevens have become the primary culprits in this new era of awareness and not always… Read the rest

ANWR Oil? One Alaskan's Opinion

Thirty-nine years ago I dragged the California woman I met in the San Francisco Bay Area to Alaska. We joined the adventurous and independent people who preceded us to one of the most fascinating places on earth, and we… Read the rest

Introducing Fred Longcoor

I introduced Fred Longcoor to the world in my novel, Saylor’s Triangle. Comments from Fred’s unpublished Book on Life were used as relative points at the completion of each of the twenty-nine chapters in Saylor’s Triangle. His wit,… Read the rest

New Writers & Direction for JOO

During the last fifteen years of my work life, I was a strong believer and fervent practitioner of Continuous Improvement as a business strategy. So earlier this year when I suggested to John Hoyle that he consider using CI to… Read the rest

White Hats and Black Hats

I grew up in a small ranching town in western South Dakota. My consciousness has been impacted by what I was when. It is postulated that most of your life values are formed when you are around nine years… Read the rest

Sarah Palin – a potential dictator?

As the week progresses and as more background information about Sarah Palin begins to appear in various newspapers and blogs, John McCain must be getting a lot more nervous about his choice of Palin as the Republican Party’s Vice… Read the rest