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In My Mother’s House
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—1/3/11—Two-thousand-eleven, 2011, marks the 40th anniversary of my mother’s death. That is hard to believe. It’s weird enough to admit that your mother has passed…
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Confessions of a Luddite: Nothing that Bleeps in MY Stocking, Thank You!
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—12/20/10—Now that the Christmas season is here again, I am forced anew to take a good, hard look at myself. It is time, I fear,…
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Magic from The East: Those Arabian Nights
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergle ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—12/6/10—Charles Dickens claimed it was his favorite book in all the world and that it was single-handedly responsible for his wanting to be a writer.…
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The Great Amused Voice from the Grave: Mark Twain
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—11/22/10—Famed American writer Mark Twain spent the last years of his life working on his autobiography. It was to be an enormous work, filled with…
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Taming the Curmudgeon Within
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—11/8/10—A young starlet interviewed in a magazine this week says that she is very attracted to older men. Really? She goes on to cite Sean…
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Of Nooks, Crannies & Gates to Nowhere
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—10/25/10—I am in love with Bill Bryson. Well, OK, too much hyperbole? My wife would probably think so. Not to mention Mrs. Bryson. What I…
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The Vanishing Storyteller
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—10/11/10—The late, wonderful Eudora Welty wrote in her memoir, One Writer’s Beginnings, that she learned to be a writer mainly by listening, as a child,…
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Not So Red, But I Can See Red from My (Alaskan) House
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—9/27/10—NOTE TO READERS: This is a column I wrote a couple of years ago, but feel compelled now to release again. It’s not because of…
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What Makes A Book A Classic . . . Really!?
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—9/13/10—Recently, while browsing in a bookstore, I overheard two older women conversing about their reading habits. “I am still trying to read The Last of…
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The Great Alaskan Bizarre: Of Palins, Bigfeet & Wood Frogs
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE, AK—(Weekly Hubris)—8/30/10—I am afraid it has become nearly a cliché by now, but it is true nonetheless: Alaska is simply not like other places. There are…