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Family is Family
When all is said and done, in my life, this is what I have done best. Raise this family. I'm really proud of that. (I hope that's not bragging?) I'm proud of them. Of us. And right now, I wish I could freeze this moment in time. Melissa Bastable Podsiki Ganey -- Mel...
Pray for Ted’s Family, Okay?
The Coast Guard suspended its search for Ted Lynch. That sad news came in a press release issued shortly before 8:00 p.m. Tuesday. Ted, a 62 year-old Haines fisherman, is my daughter’s father-in-law. He had promised to make the Thanksgiving turkey this year for our...
At the Post-Op Hotel in Anchorage
I have the Internet, public radio, a few good books, peanut butter, rice cakes, apples, Perrier and a huge flat screen TV to watch the debate and the baseball game on, which is a long way of saying I'm as comfortable as I can be away from home and that this is why...
Small Things Considered
Here is my essay for this week's Small Things Considered Feature on KHNS. Rosalie Loewen and Debi Knight-Kennedy are regular contributors too, if you'd like to do one, or more, contact Margaret at 766-2020, or email me and we'll help you. When I heard that Oklahoma!...
Almost Winter
The best guesses as to when the first snow will fall at sea level out the road are on the "snow board" at 33-Mile, and I'm afraid my friend Lea who lives out there didn't win. She said in church on Sunday that she chose October 15. But it's getting close. Some folks...
Sunday’s Thought
"The reward of a lifetime of reading is a rich acquaintanceship with those gentle or powerful or rebellious or acceptant, those greatly mixed and humanly variable but always greatly human ghosts." Wallace Stegner
Not as Quiet as it Looks in Haines
Tonight the planning commission meets at 6:30 in the council chambers and one of the items on the agenda is a potential mine at the base of Mt. Riley, about a mile down the road from my house. It is on state and mental health trust land apparently, but is basically...