Last fall I wrote THIS POST about the Kilcher family who lives in Alaska and stars in the reality TV series “Alaska: The Last Frontier.” Since I wrote that post it has become my number one read post and often the search people use to find my blog. Well, today I wanted to write a follow-up post to the first one.

I am doing this for two reasons. One, last week at a pastor’s meeting the other pastors began talking about how much they despise the show since it really stretches the truth. Let me be 100% honest – the people who live in Homer, Alaska find the show comical and extremely exaggerated. I have yet to find one person who lives here who thinks the show is legitimate.

Second, I just got off the phone with a broker at the company that handles my retirement account. I needed some info for taxes and he had to wait for some pages to come up on his computer. While waiting he began to ask me about Alaska. He told me he watched a show on TV with some people who live a remote life in the wilds of Alaska. He was talking about the Kilchers. I simply replied, “Don’t believe everything you see on TV.”

Well, if you read my last post, you know that the Kilchers live only a few miles from my house. They are not miles “off the grid” or “out in the bush” as we say in Alaska. They live right here on the road system a few miles outside of Homer where we have about 5,000 people living. We have jobs, grocery stores (3 of them) and all the modern conveniences of the world.

Today I want to add one more piece of information for you that are concerned about the Kilcher’s hard lifestyle. Jewel, the music superstar is the Kilcher’s daughter. That’s right. The rich, beautiful star of music and is now appearing in movies and on TV is the daughter of Atz Kilcher. Don’t believe me – Read it HERE.

I often wonder what she thinks of the show. I wonder even more if she has ever offered to pay for plumbing or internet or anything. Then again, maybe she doesn’t have to now that the TV show is paying their bills.

I do not have any huge spiritual lesson from this post. Just living here I am reminded daily of the old saying, “Don’t believe everything you see on TV,” because “things are not always as they appear.” Just ask anyone living in the Homer area 🙂