A few days ago, a friend of mine messaged me and told me her daughter is having a very hard time trying to homeschool her three young children. She had never planned to be a homeschooling mom and was feeling completely overwhelmed. I am not a...
We have a tradition in our family of making time capsules with our third grade kids. There are two buried around the property already. Rigel’s time capsule 2018.We ask the kids to write about themselves and collect items that reflect our...
While in the grand scheme of things life is not too different for my family than it normally is right now, we are still part of our communities; our local community, our State, our country, our world. And things are unmistakably different out there...
Cephalopods are a class of animals whose earliest fossils date back to the late Cambrian period, and dominated the oceans during the Ordovician. Modern cephalopods come in two sub classes: Coleoidea (who have mostly or completely lost their shells)...
I am impressed by Alaska’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our schools have been empty for a couple of weeks, our restaurants open for takeout only for a while and we have a travel advisory to keep instate travel to a minimum. Anchorage has...
Stuck at home with your kids thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic? Have no fear! Ma Bender’s Backwoods Homeschool has a project for you that will keep you busy for at least 35 days! Today, you are going to learn how to mummify a body, Ancient...
As you may know, we are a circus family. Believe it or not, but the Green Light Circus put on by the Denali Arts Council was a HUGE factor in our decision to move to Talkeetna. We have always been a family that values theater and the arts. That time...
I am under no delusion that my little folk- and pop art paintings are anything more than a way to express myself and perhaps bring a bit of joy to my friends and buyers. But this morning I shed a tear of pride when my Happy Coronavirus painting...
Don’t worry; I am still the hardcore anti-monarchist you know and love. I find the notion that some people are better than others, simply due to the accident of birth, abhorrent and disgusting. Or the idea that I somehow inherently owe loyalty...
