Comments on: About Julia https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/ An Alaska Life: Culture + Travel + Food + Home Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:08:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Sean OMalley https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-6457 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 16:36:55 +0000 http://omalleysalaskalife.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-6457 I was visiting Anchorage last year and I read the story about your grandfather ‘the doc’
I am researching the origin of families wit the name of OMalley and we in Ireland are interested in his family lineage. Could you enlighten us as to how he got to Alaska.

]]> By: Carol Comeau https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-5215 Sat, 11 May 2024 01:13:15 +0000 http://omalleysalaskalife.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-5215 Julia,
I have loved reading your columns and stories since you were a student at East HS. You have a unique ability to describe situations and people’s humanity in very compelling ways. I just finished reading your Opinion column, “You can pass Midtown, but you can’t leave its complicated truths behind” and I was struck by the humanity described. I was especially moved by the man in the wheelchair story. Here in Bellingham, we are seeing many of the same issues. Thank you.

]]> By: TIMOTHY BERG https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-4689 Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:56:11 +0000 http://omalleysalaskalife.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-4689 Hi Julia,

I just read your article in the New York Times…ie Starving Orca’s.

It was a fun read, and I am sure you mean well, but you have the facts really mixed up.
And I know as a professional writer it is really important to get all your facts correct.

I have lived and fished and hung out with the Orcas here in Alaska since 1977. I have also fished for King salmon and have a lot of knowledge on the subject.

If you are ever interested in where your article got it wrong, contact me.

Thank you,

Tim Berg – Soldotna, Alaska

]]> By: Julia O'Malley https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3975 Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:48:07 +0000 http://omalleysalaskalife.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-3975 In reply to Doug Parker.

Thanks for reading!

]]> By: Julia O'Malley https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3974 Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:47:48 +0000 http://omalleysalaskalife.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-3974 In reply to J Robert Moore.

Thanks!

]]> By: J Robert Moore https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3951 Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:55:56 +0000 http://omalleysalaskalife.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-3951 Julia, just heard your OPB interview
and learned a lot! BRAVO for the work you are doing. This planet needs more people like you!
J Robert in Eugene,

]]> By: Paul Mosby https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3946 Sat, 22 Jul 2023 21:07:55 +0000 http://omalleysalaskalife.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-3946 Hello Julia
Your recent article on orca whales/king Salmon is short a bunch of facts.
First, Southern Resident Orca Whales, in Puget Sound(I live there), have many reasons for their poor health. First, a recent study shows that the Orcas are extremely inbred- most of the breeding is done by 2 males, and really, only one is dominant , in this. Second, while the Calif., Canadien, and Alaskan Orcas are currently doing well, and they eat everything-seals and sea lions as well as Salmon, the Puget Sound Orcas are strictly Chinook Salmon eaters. Their “pickiness” is one their downfalls. You don’t get the sympathy here for their decline that out of state people have. Also, you know that in 2021, the Southern Resident Orcas were only in Puget Sound for 121 days. Hardly residents. Mostly tourists. But, back to salmon. The Puget Sound Salmon have natural predators whose populations are off the charts, charts that can be connected to the salmon drop-off. People won’t tell you these facts but you can look them up. Look up the facts and write another article Julia. Take care

]]> By: Doug Parker https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3945 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:23:14 +0000 http://omalleysalaskalife.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-3945 Julia

Your king salmon article in this morning’s New York Times is an excellent but sobering look into the increasingly terrible environmental conundrum for our world and its beings. On the same NYT front page is an article about the latest failed effort to persuade the Chinese government to join in carbon emissions reduction. May the day soon come (and hopefully in time) when you can write about encouraging signs on the various political and environmental fronts. Your Selkregg grandparents and my parents would be so heartbroken that so far that hasn’t happened.

]]> By: Monica Jenicek Lyall https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3750 Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:23:48 +0000 http://omalleysalaskalife.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-3750 Hi Julia, our book club is reading The Whale and the Cupcake and cooking from it. Can we prevail on you to attend our meeting and sample our cuisine? Maybe a Sunday night in March/April ?
Monica Jenicek, Blythe Marston, Stephanie Kesler, Mary Jo Torgerson, Dave and Andy Sonneborn, Susan Lagrande and Pete Murphy, Peggy Cobey, Lynn Shaver, and various other luminaries.

]]> By: Julia O'Malley https://www.juliaomalley.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3442 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 02:28:50 +0000 http://omalleysalaskalife.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-3442 In reply to KJ.

I love ALL THIS.

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