In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.