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Start with an extra hour of sleep on Saturday morning, be sure the window is open so you can hear the crows and the gulls and the tide flowing past Pyramid Island. It helps if the sheets are old and soft and have been dried on the line, and that the pillows are lumpy...

 A beach walk with Auntie JJ (Joanna Jeanne) and Baby CC (Caroline  Cooper) and of course, Forte. Like Cher and Bono, the happy water dog has one name.  (Also, note grandma's blooming cherry tree.) Also, that boot on JJ's lower leg is because of a stress fracture from...

The good news is that the paperback of Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs is a hit, and has made the Indie bookstores national bestseller list, (#39 this week) and the Pacific Northwest booksellers bestseller list. (#13.) But, you may have heard on the radio...

In real news, two young Haines artists have been given big awards.  Writer Rosie McGuire and artist Sarah Cohen both earned Rasmuson Foundation grants yesterday, congratulations! Rosie grew up at Lutak, but lives in Cordova now where she fishes commercially with her...

 My back is sore, my knees hurt, and at Morning Muscles yesterday the 8lb weights were a lot heavier than usual. It is spring, and that means digging, painted, pruning, burning and fixing stuff up. In my neighborhood gardens are being turned over, trees trimmed, one...

I wrote two obituaries for the Chilkat Valley News last week. Seamstress and homemaker Beverly Craig (70) died in Oregon, she and her husband Chauncey lived in Haines for many years before kidney failure meant she needed to move closer to a hospital back in 1992....