That’s me with my back to camera, in baggy underpants and socks with my hand on Snoopys Good Grief Glider. And that’s my brother, David Staley, sucking his finger and mugging for the camera. He doesn’t do that anymore, suck his fingers I mean. He is still very much a mugger for any camera. God [...]

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve told the story. I’ve never written about it. I don’t even think about it that much. Except lately. The events have dislodged from my subconscious and can now be found most every day bobbing at the forefront of my random waking brain activity. And [...]

You probably can’t see the snow falling.

That’s how much daylight we had up here in Wasilla, Alaska today. Technically the first day of winter but it sure feels like it’s been underway for a while. If the weather gods smile on me I’ll be back in sunny So-Cal sometime Tuesday. – Staley Out

24 hours from now I’ll be in the air. Somewhere between LA and AK. I haven’t been back in the winter since I moved here. Over 9 years. I’m gonna freeze my ass off. Got a suitcase fill of fleece. I hope it helps. DailyStaley may not be so daily for the next two or [...]

I wrote this a couple years ago. Someday I’ll write the whole story, start to finish, or make a little documentary. I have a lot of cool video footage and pictures. This expedition in 1997 changed my life. Or rather changed the way I see my life. During a two week trip into the Ruth [...]

I wrote this several years ago and performed it as a monologue in an acting class… It was so much fun to write that I decided to do a series of very short stories about my past, growing up in Alaska. This is the first of those stories. Many of them (including this one) will [...]