Alaska had been on my radar for years, and when I finally made the trip, I knew I wanted to visit Seward – a coastal town ...

Pequot Lakes columnist Craig Nagel says each year about this time the memory of a Chris Craft boat comes flooding back.

He was bleeding internally from his liver, so my nursing team and I took the dog to surgery. I collected the blood from the abdomen, and we transfused it back into the dog while I repaired the liver.