in Anchorage. TOM BRENNAN is a newspaper editor, columnist, and business consultant basedBorn in Massachusetts, Brennan and his wife, Marnie, quit their jobs at a New England newspaper in 1967 and drove cross-country towing a houseboat on wheels. It was a six-week journey that convinced them they didn't want to return the same way they had come. In Alaska, Tom became a reporter for the Anchorage Times, then worked for many years in the oil industry both as an in-house executive and external consultant. In 2000, he became a writer for The Voice of the Anchorage Times.