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Dec 27 Under the Covers (And the Weather.)
“My kind of singing isn’t meant to be perfect. It’s meant to reflect the imperfections of a human being like me.” ― Willie Nelson, It's a Long Story: My Life. For Christmas my daughter gave me a jar of her home made fire cider (it cures everything) and the next day I...
Tempers and Teapots
I'm afraid I lost my temper in a meeting I thought was about food carts and trucks, and how to make them work for Haines while still supporting local eateries-- but it turned into a discussion about vendors selling-- or renting-- stuff out of trailers parked downtown,...
Sunday’s Thought
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.” ― Mark Twain (Happy anniversary to the guy I have been lucky enough to share my life with for 34...
Yikes. That was close!
I don't have a picture of the fire that almost took off and burned the beach and our houses down this morning-- because I was a little involved in putting it out instead. A campfire up by the trail to the road by the old Baha'i Center was left smoldering last night,...
Gratitude
Do you ever wake up feeling so grateful that everything actually turned out as planned, and that for a little while, all is right with the world? I have been a tad PTSD-ish for the last ten days or so in anticipation of the bike race- the Kluane to Chilkat...
Sunday’s Thought
"None of us is being treated fairly if we're not all being treated equally."-- Gloria Steinem But how do you make that happen, in both large and small ways? A good, doable place to begin is, as Gloria Steinem also told student's at my husband's and daughter's old...
Flying By the Seat of my Pants
When the email didn't work this week, I figured the internet was down all over town, and to tell you the truth, was kind of relieved. My house is full-- with Eliza and baby James and JJ and for a bit her husband, and then their Haines sisters and children are here,...