Christine Cunningham explained to me the choice she made between being a vegetarian and a hunter. For her, the two choices were not far apart: they were both about integrity. The integrity of Christine’s writing, and that of her partner Steve Meyer, lights the pages of their book, The Land We Share: A love affair …
During our second conversation, over coffee, it came out that what Dan wanted most at 36 was to grow up. He had been addicted to marijuana for so long he had missed out on maturing as a man. I thought we were going to talk about his public speaking club. I hadn’t thought that topic …
I was ready to go home at the end of my work day when I got a call about a possible mutiny at sea. November 1990. We were in the middle of perhaps the last great American newspaper war, between my morning Anchorage Daily News and the evening Anchorage Times. Well-funded owners were throwing everything …
In 1934, my grandmother, Mildred Wohlforth (pen name Mildred Gilman), went to Germany to interview Hitler on assignment with the New Yorker. After she confronted Hermann Goring with her investigative findings about the concentration camps and the status of Jews, the interview with Hitler was cancelled and she was followed by Gestapo agents. Her life …
