Living in the wilderness on Kodiak Island
Our summer wildlife-viewing and sport-fishing trips ended three days ago. It was time for…
This week, I decided to write a post about my Facebook launch party for the…
The Fishermen is another story by Marcia Messier, who cooked for many years at our…
This past Memorial Day, my cousin and his wife, Mike and Mary Kohr, drove from…
It is party time! I want to invite all of you to the Launch Party…
I have been ending my blog posts for the past few months with a reminder…
TAGS: Alaska, Alaska crime, mystery newsletter, Tru Crime
While Robin and Mike are on vacation trekking through New Zealand, I agreed to do…
I did not take the above photo this winter, I took it four years ago,…
This summer and fall several dead whales were spotted in the Western Gulf of Alaska,…
It’s New Year’s resolution time again. I used not to make resolutions, because I thought…
Christmas in Amook Pass is a quiet event that sneaks up on me. I was planning…
Autumn on Kodiak Island is a beautiful time of year, but I’ll be honest, it…
The Munsey kids usually had domestic cats, but they also had many wild pets over…
TAGS: Bald Eagle, Kodiak Island, Wild Pets
When I hear my husband and his siblings talk about their experiences growing up in…
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“The List”is another guest post by Marcia Messier. In case you missed her earlier posts,…
Living in the Kodiak wilderness is not a lifestyle most people would choose. Over the…
Kodiak Time is another guest blog by Marcia Messier. I think she perfectly captures the…
TAGS: Kodiak Island, Munsey’s Bear Camp
The New Cook Arrives in a Fog is a story by my dear friend Marcia…
Park Munsey became a pilot in the late fifties, and in the 1960s, he…
TAGS: Amook Airways, Flying in Alaska, Kodiak Island, Munsey
By the1960s, the Munseys spent most of the year at Munsey’s Bear Camp, their…
This summer, the Kodiak Historical Society and the Baranov Museum in Kodiak are working…
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My second novel, Murder Over Kodiak, is based on Kodiak Island, Alaska, where I live. Most of…
TAGS: Floatplane, Kodiak Island, Murder Over Kodiak, Mystery, Novel
Puffins arrive in Uyak Bay in May, and it is a welcome sign of spring…
TAGS: Alaska, horned puffin, Kodiak Island, puffins, tufted puffin
This past week I took a rare trip to the town of Kodiak. I’ve been…
TAGS: Kodiak, Kodiak Alaska, Kodiak Island
Three orphaned cubs unexpectedly entered our lives two weeks ago. You may remember in my…
I’m sitting next to the heater and looking out the window at a blizzard, so…