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Rain, Time and Love
I have always been terrible with titles, and so I know this one isn't very clever but I have never let that stop me. I used to write columns for the Anchorage Daily News and Woman's Day and the editors always picked the titles so I never had to think about them. I...
Trying To Smile Without Miles
We heard the emergency broadcast on an EMT's pager at church, the voice said there was a 63 year old man, unresponsive on Mosquito Lake, CPR had begun. When the service was over another EMT, arriving to pick up his wife said the man hadn't made it, but couldn't, as...
Sunday’s Thought
In Bishop Desmond Tutu's book, God Has a Dream, he writes: So how do we ensure that goodness does prevail?...Our decisions--personal, corporate, at play, at home, in private and in public-- make the moral fabric of our society, indeed of the world. How we interact...
Change in the Weather
It's wet and windy today, about forty degrees warmer than last Saturday's sub-zero temperatures. A good day to be indoors timing the annual swim meet. Yesterday there was a a brief moment around two when the snow stopped and before the rain came blowing up from Juneau...
Photos of the Day
The ferry arrives with swimmers and basketball players for this weekend's competitions. Loading up the Wrangell Girls in the school van for the ride to town.
Gold Rush Alaska or…?
Tonight the Haines miners will no doubt lose another 1000 dollars and face imminent financial and personal ruin. It was fun to see Dorsey fishing with friend Greg Bigbsy in last week's show, and the summer scenery was terrific. But I can only willingly suspend...
Working, sort of.
I skidded and swerved in the new snow (it was deeper and slicker than I'd expected) up the hill and down again to Morning Muscles. It looks like Afternoon Muscles will be shoveling and hauling some firewood to the porch. What with Merry's passing (thank you for all...