I live and write on Lingít Aaní, and gratefully acknowledge the past, present and future caretakers of this beautiful place, the Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan.

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Weds. Postcard

Weds. Postcard

I did the country show on KHNS again today. It was the first time in a while that I've been free to do it. I filled in for my brother-in-law Norm who is on a sunny beach with my sister. I figured I'd send them-- and you-- a postcard from paradise. I did share a joke...

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Sunday’s Thought

 From Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales: One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear the moment before sleep, that I can never remember...

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Holly Jolly Christmas Follies

 Read all about this week's entertainment-- the puppet show, party & more-- at the Alaska Dispatch. Here's my Christmas letter from Haines.

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A Skating Post Card

This is a first for me, and it took a little figuring, but I believe I have learned how to post photos. So, here then are a few post cards of skating on Chilkoot Lake. My hands froze quickly as soon as the mittens were off, and the skating was so nice that I didn't...

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Something Funny

JJ is in the kitchen talking to Chip and his friend John, who has arrived for his decaf because it is too dark to start working yet. She's dressed for a run with Chandler, who is on the Cornell cross country team. He'll be here any minute. JJ tells John she's going to...

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Hockey & Basketball

The north wind is shaking the house and the children (can you still call them that when the youngest is 20?) are nestled all snug in their beds, or whichever bed they can find. (They went to sleep early last night after being out at the bonfire on the lake late for...

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