Exploring life at the 64th parallel... and beyond.

I've heard the April showers bring may flowers bit all my life. Without the rains there would be no bountiful floral harvest to enjoy. How sad would that be, I ask you? Pretty sad indeed. I just have one little itty bitty question. If April showers do indeed bring May flowers, does it matter if t...

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North Pole, Alaska homes for sale. Conveniently located near Fort Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base. Prices for new construction homes in North Pole are approximately 6% lower today than the 2007 average. Now is a great time to take advantage of the lower home prices and builder incentives. C...

Do you work for free? If you were to ask me that I would instinctively say no, I don't. Kathy is expensive and I have toys to pay for - not to mention two mortgages, car payments, insurance, retirement funding, etc, etc. However, the truth of the matter is that sometimes I do work for free. That ...

As is appropriate we have national holidays dedicated to those brave men and women in uniform who have faithfully served our country. They have willingly sacrificed so that our very way of life would continue. They fought wars to defend and promote democracy and to defeat tyranny and oppression....

In this case it is easy being green. According to the National Safety Council approximately 41 million computers became outdated in 2004 and 63 million in 2005. That number was expected to reach upwards of 500 million in 2007. Research shows that 75% of outdated, unused computers are stored and ...

Welcome to the Fairbanks Tanana valley Farmers Market. Established in the early 70's as a way to develop and promote agriculture, horticulture in Alaska and to provide quality produce products to the public, the Tanana Valley Farmers Market showcases a variety of Alaska Grown products and plants...

Well, this is no scene from Casablanca. The title does reflect my feelings about reporting the same 'ol Fairbanks sales numbers that have I've been reporting for months. How many different ways can I describe... sluggish? There is always good news, of course. That would be that homes that are pr...

Could that be possible? Yesterday our blogging buddy, Ruthmarie Hicks, wrote a post somewhat begging the question of why we, as the voting public, should care about and more importantly feel the need to invade the private lives of elected officials. His involvement in a prostitution ring brought ...

Well, let's just light my fire first thing this morning. One of the first articles I happened to read this morning was from Reuters.com; a story in which the esteemed Senator from Illinois is pushing "for passage of a bill to put huge pay packages of some U.S. corporate executives under greater s...