About
Learning to pay attention, one tide at a time.
Hi, I'm Jason. I live on a bluff above Cook Inlet on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, where the view holds four volcanoes and the tide never does the same thing twice. Alaska Nomad started as a place to put the videos — eagles stealing driftwood, moose in the yard, sunsets that interrupt dinner — and became a practice of paying attention.
The journal
What Alaska Nomad actually is.
This is a small independent journal about life on the edge of Cook Inlet — short films and written reflections about wildlife, water, weather, and the slow work of noticing. Most posts start as a video: something crosses the yard or lights up the horizon, and I grab whatever camera is closest.
It's also, honestly, about learning to live differently. For years I filled my life to the edges and ignored every warning flare my body sent up. Learning to stop, watch an eagle for twenty minutes, and call that a good use of an afternoon — that's the real project here. The wildlife is just the excuse.
Flares aren't meant to be ignored. They're invitations to stop, to listen, and maybe — before it's an emergency — to ask for help.
You'll also find what I'm reading along the way, because the books and the bluff are usually working on the same problem. If you'd like the occasional letter when there's something worth sharing, the newsletter below is the way.
Start here
Read the latest reflection.
Or wander the archive — eagles, bears, sunsets, squid, and the occasional reflection from the bluff.