From the Editor’s Desk… So it is now Christmas, celebrated by Christians and many non-Christians around the world. I am not quite certain what I think about Christmas. I was raised outside of any religious tradition. My parents were secularists and rationalists. But we were, I suppose, what you’d call “cultural Christians.” And that meant…

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Alaska in the winter is nobody’s idea of fun. Up here, the nights are long and the days are short, and every minute of either one is brutally cold. When I told my editor what I was planning, he told me I was crazy. Alaska is nearly as big as the lower 48 states combined,…

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