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December is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful…
Which makes no sense, but is a riff on a Jimmy Buffet tune, and he is one of my favorites thanks to a college roommate from Florida who brought his albums to our Vermont dorm room in 1981.The line comes from popular The Weather is Beautiful, Wish You Were Here style...
e-reader pros and cons
Algonquin Books, my wonderful publisher (I mean that, they are great) has just jumped into the ebook world. I have mixed feelings about this, as I am a real book person. I love holding them, looking at them, moving the piles of them all around my house. At Christmas...
Sunday’s Thought
Mary Oliver wrote, "Real prayers are not the words, but the attention that comes first." I think the same is true of gratitude. It is not in the saying of "thank you," of course that is always nice, and a proper response to most anything-- but real gratitude is...
Sitka Postcard (And a baby picture or two. Can’t help myself.)
As you can imagine, it has been a little busy around here. What with the baby being born, Chip's trip to see Grandma Joanne in Florida, Eliza is here now too taking the wilderness medicine class while I babysit her much higher energy Golden Retriever than my mellow...
Say Hey, More Snow on the Way!
Well, this sure is good news for heliskiers-- and for the keepers of the record books-- Winter Storm Warning URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE HAINES BOROUGH AND LYNN CANAL- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...HAINES ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON...
The Business of Writing?
I was interviewed for Alaska Entrepreneur recently, and here's the story, on the business of writing. (Don't laugh.)
Home Again Dancing a Jig
It is hard to believe that it has only been a week since I left for Sitka with a hunch that the baby was coming-- and now we are home safe with her. The ferry arrived at 4:30 this morning. (Chip is back too, he flew in from visiting great-grandma Joanne in Florida in...