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Family is Family
How does that Kaci Musgrave song about family go? "You get what you get, and you don't get to pick 'em. They might smoke like chimneys, but give you their kidneys. Yeah friends come in handy but family is family." I was humming that a lot last week in Ocala with my...
Music and Mountains
About fifty people, from elders to the Policeman Simon's youngest child, he's just now walking, attended the classical piano concert last night in the Chilkat Center and heard Tien Hsieh give the Steinway a real workout, especially on Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli...
A Cold Day in Haines
I'm busy writing a column and a novel. Seriously. But I still need groceries, so took a few pictures to hold you over while I was in town. Oh, there was one warm moment. Here's Chip reading to Caroline in the apartment above the store at lunchtime.
Alaska Governor’s Down Home Style
This wedding announcement from the Sunday Juneau Empire says miles about Alaska. (I love it.) Parnell, Adams to wed JUNEAU EMPIRE Grace Parnell and Austin Adams of Anchorage will be married in July of 2011 at the Governor’s Mansion. The bride is the daughter of Sean...
Hearts That Thrive in Winter
When our choir director Nancy Nash introduced us before Saturday's performance in the Chilkat Center at the Wear Red Day party that focused on women's heart health, she said we were perfect for the occasion since singing is good for the heart and we are a women's...
Sunday’s Thought
From Thornton Wilder's play Our Town: "Now there are some things we all know, but we don't take 'em out and look at 'em very often. We all know something is eternal. And it ain't houses, and it ain't earth, and it ain't even the stars...everybody knows in their bones...
What Dead People Hear & Say
Before my father’s big retirement dinner on February 18 in Manhattan we stopped to see my mother at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. We needed a map to find the plot in the 400 acre urban graveyard. We also brought a shovel to clear the snow from the flat markers in...