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A.L. Kushner
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Writer | Former Humanitarian Surgeon | Reality Strategist

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Museum of the Future at sunrise #Dubai
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Yep. In #Anchorage
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Got a helper to shovel 💪 #Anchorage
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Everyone has an agenda. Most miss the lesson. I did at first.
Dubai next week: finding the folks who want to learn from chaos.
#LessonsFromChaos #DubaiFutureForum
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Mice against ICE. #Anchorage #Alaska
October 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Inlet View Elementary School. Anchorage, Alaska. Guess it’s a sign the new building is almost complete 😎
October 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Typhoon Halong destroyed several coastal villages in western Alaska, forcing the evacuation of as many as 2,000 people. Homes have been flooded, pushed off their foundations and, in some cases, swept entirely out to sea. Here, floodwaters inundate the village of Kotzebue. Photo by Alaska DOT.
October 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
After years of going into war zones and disaster areas, I now live in Alaska and am a stay at home dad for two boys.

I traded one type of Chaos for another.

#LessonsFromChaos #Parenting
October 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Son and school buddy carved ‘67’ pumpkins today, guess what grade they’re in? 🙄
October 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
October 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Morning walk #AnchorageAK
October 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Morning walk #Anchorage
October 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
8 am Westchester Lagoon #winteriscoming
October 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
October 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Years in war zones taught me humanitarian work isn’t heroic.
It’s mostly improvisation, survival, and failure.

That’s Lessons From Chaos.
October 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Scrubbing for surgery in Sierra Leone
October 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
October 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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October 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Beautiful day for a hike. Mt Baldy #Alaska
September 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Memoir update: 47k words, 82 chapters.

New working title: Lessons from Chaos: Notes of a ‘Simple’ Surgeon.

Grateful for the encouragement so far, it keeps me writing.

Chapter 1: An Idiot. It begins with this Newsweek cover. Opening days of the war in Slovenia, I was next to the photographer. 😬
September 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Family Outdoor School in Denali. Thanks Alaska Geographic!
July 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Beautiful day to dipnet on the Kasilof #Alaska #fishing #salmon
July 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Fish camp on Kasilof #alaska
June 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Russian River ferry. #Alaska #fishing
June 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM