MaryJo Comins

00000192-9ca3-dda9-a1f3-defb0eab0000A few months ago a classmate’s mother celebrated her 100th birthday with a card party. That is, we were invited to create and send cards to commemorate her milestone. Several of us remembered and shared stories of her late husband, Mr. Norton, the beloved principal of North Star Elementary School in Anchorage.Click for the full story.

00000192-9ca2-dda9-a1f3-defbf40c0000In the early 1950s, many people thought Alaska was remote, practically inaccessible. I was seven years old the summer of 1951 when my father quit his job as a Northwest Airlines pilot and moved our family from Seattle to Anchorage to begin flying for Pacific Northern Airlines.Read more.

00000193-6344-d71b-a7fb-ebdf8c780000Turnagain Arm has the largest tidal range in the United States and the fourth highest in the world with an average of 30 feet during its 12 and a half hour tidal cycle.The day the Turnagain Arm clay nearly claimed me, I was about 10 years old.Read more.