The older you get, the easier it is to reminisce, to look back on your glory days, to review the highlights of your life. I am not sure when my identity began evolving and developing, but I do know that when I wrote my first song at about age 13,[…]
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Interview from the Archives: June 2007 with Anchorage Daily News
“The first half of my life, I was known as the son of Yule; the last half, I’m known as the father of Jewel,” reflected Atz in 2007 to Mike Dunham with the Anchorage Daily News. Diving into some old newspaper clippings, stories told about Atz through the years go[…]
Reliving the Stories While Recording the Audiobook for My Upcoming Memoir
Writing a book. What an experience! I’m convinced everyone should try it at least once. Man, what a trip! Dude, it’s radically awesome! It’s the journey and the destination all rolled up into one, not to mention a whole heap of good old fashioned therapy.
Alaska: The Last Frontier Theme Song chords/tabs
I truly have to give my parents the credit for the ‘Alaska: the Last Frontier’ Discovery tv show theme song my daughter Jewel and I co-wrote. Here’s why — they thought out-of-the-box, which has taught me to do the same. If I needed something they made it. Growing up this[…]
Homestead games – Ice bowling
Even though we were secluded as a family in the early days on the homestead, as kids do anywhere, we played a lot. There were some of the standard indoor games such as checkers and Parcheesi and various card games. Outdoor games included tag and hide and go seek, Mother[…]
Fish skin leather workshop
I’m at a weekend workshop across Kachemak Bay from Homer learning to turn slimy salmon skins into beautiful functional art. The goal is to make a salmon skin basket. So far we’ve been very busy, not even time for lunch yet today! I have my first salmon skinned out. The[…]
Circling for Survival
“Life is simple, Life is good, When you’re living like you should” is a line from the theme song my daughter Jewel and I wrote for our reality show, Alaska: The Last Frontier. Life indeed was more than good this morning as I was sitting in my little Cottonwood Grove[…]
For Men Only
Got my furry fuzzy felted slippers on this morning. I’m back up at the Willard cabin. I’m facing east, looking out that small window I stuck in that wall a couple years back. To my right, the south, is that big 3 x 4 window, with the view of the[…]
A Pair of What? A Paradox.
Slippery little rascals those paradoxes. Paradoxi? They’re kinda like newborn calves, slimy and wet and hard to get hold of. Before you know it, they’ve slipped right through a tiny crack in the gate, and all you got in your one hand is their tiny back hoof and maybe some[…]
Find your tribe
Lots of research out there indicates or actually proves, beyond a doubt, that us humans are a herd animal. And, of course, as in every herd, there are always a few loners. A few horses that are grazing at the edge of the herd, or just a little ways off. But[…]