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Something Funny
1. The boys from Australia played hockey today with Christian and the Bells (siblings and cousins all tough little athletes) at the Fairgrounds rink. It was so cold-- the coldest day yet it seems, with the north wind screaming down Main Street, earth truly as hard as...
Vote Coast Today
Today is primary election day and I will vote to bring back the state coastal zone management program. It worked for 30 years until our lawmakers let it run out. It seems to me that if the oil companies are out-spending the coastal mayors, fishermen, and concerned...
A Floating Memorial
After popular fisherman and father of three daughters, Richard Boyce, slipped off his gillnetter and drowned on the 4th of July, his friends decided to do something positive and honor his memory by providing flotation devices in the form of inflatable suspenders for...
Sunday’s Thought
From poet Mary Oliver- "Oh Lord, how shining and festive is your gift to us, if we only look, and see."
Food With Thought
When a friend asked for volunteers to make dinners for Michael and the two little girls while his wife Melissa is in an Anchorage hospital, 800 miles away from Haines, on complete bed rest, until hopefully December, to keep a baby in her womb who apparently wants to...
Where Have I Been? A Postcard
Let's just say there has been a lot of family time this week. We needed to get a tree stand up for moose hunting season, golf, berry pick, enjoy a few more sunny summer days at the beach, can some salmon, take a few walks, and spend some time rainy-day time indoors...
Camp Postcard
It is more than a little nice to spend a few days with a little bit of the family (actually the very littlest right now) at a cabin on a pond out of internet and phone reach, without electricity or plumbing. My grandchildren will no doubt mess up all those popular...