Field Notes
Mark, our president, writes about the work in English and Ukrainian. His newest notes are on his Substack, An Alaskan in Ukraine; earlier dispatches are kept here.
November 8, 2026
Six Days Later
It’s Sunday evening in Ukraine. Back home in Alaska, people are just starting their day. The sky is getting light there, although it won’t be sunrise in Nome for almost an hour. Maybe today is a day… Read the full note
Recent notes
November 5, 2026
How the Alaska Midterms and the Two Dans Finally Changed My Mind on Citizens United
One of my last photos of Norton Sound and Nome, Alaska, taken January 2025. When I voted in the midterms, the question I kept asking myself…
November 2, 2026
Truth Doesn't Change, No Matter How You Vote
Captain “Cabbage” Kapusta, vehicle commander, surveys the world from his chosen post. His position on elections, wars, and the fate of…
October 31, 2026
Where Are the Others?
Residents evacuated from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky at the Ukraine-Belarus border in Chernihiv Oblast after a day-long…
October 27, 2026
O King, We Are Not Careful to Answer Thee
Mother and daughter, dead together. Murdered in their home by Russian terrorists at 04:48 in the morning, October 10th, 2026, three days…
October 22, 2026
With Great Power
At noon on October 22nd, in Anchorage’s Bear Tooth Theaterpub (1230 W. 27th Avenue), the Alaska World Affairs Council is presenting “ From…
October 20, 2026
Keep the Receipts
If you are an American engineer, operator, manager or official who had any involvement, no matter how peripheral, in the speed cap on…
October 17, 2026
To the Starshield Engineer
Delivering some hardware to friends. I don’t know if this letter will ever get to you. I’m sending it this way because I write these…
October 17, 2026
Collect and Safeguard Evidence
“Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, talks with Aleksandr “Sasha” Moskalenko of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, in front of the BLAMbulance on April 12…
October 16, 2026
Conspiracy to Commit Murder
Kyiv, Ukraine; October 14th, 2026. Photo credit: Ukrainian prosecutor’s office. Speaking to reporters at the White House around 12:45 p.m…
Earlier dispatches
- August 15th, 2024 FIVE air raids? Really? (Or in other words, “Tuesday.”) August 15, 2024
- The Anger of a Gentle Man (After the russian destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam) June 7, 2023
- Easter in Ukraine April 17, 2022
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