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Sunday’s Thought
I'm home, after cleaning out my parents' old house on the farm they loved, and saying goodbye to all of it. Yes, it's a lot. I promised myself I wouldn't take too much stuff, that I'd be good about tossing, weeding, giving it away. Then I filled an old steamer truck...
April Fooling
This morning something jammed in the KHNS radio automation system, so we heard last Friday's April Fool's Day stories. The one about a new Alaska reality show called "Green Necks" really had me going, all over again. The joke was that logger Scott Rossman and clean...
Namaste (The divine in you meets the divine in me today)
So, I saw Lee as I was leaving the grocery store, and he said, "I thought of you today." And I said thank you. I thought he had meant he thought of me today because it's April 7, the sixth anniversary of the accident when I was run over by a truck. (My children sent...
Nicholas Galanin: a Name You Should Know
What with this website's new splash, the paperback launch hoopla, a trip to Juneau to be the featured writer for the UAS Literary&Arts Journal Tidal Echoes , my agent's praise of my novel manuscript, I'm a little overwhelmed. All this should make me very happy, and it...
Ellen’s Story
If you can't get a subscription to the Chilkat Valley News, which I'd suggest, since a paper is best read in your hands and used later for fire starter or house breaking puppies, you may read the obituary I wrote (and Tom Morphet edited for brevity, it was an 8 pager...
Sunday’s Thought
From the poem "Hardest to Love", by Tina Johnson in the UAS Tidal Echoes Literary & Arts Journal 2011: I want to love best those things that are hardest to love, the cold rain no one welcomes or thanks.
Choose Respect
Alaska has the shameful distinction of being in the top five states when it comes to domestic violence and child abuse. Governor Sean Parnell wants to change that, and has encouraged Choose Respect marches and rallies around the state to call attention to the problem...