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It’s November
Yes, it's November and it is still 2021, but in lots of ways feels like 2020. Still masked, still waiting for life to come back to normal. It's getting closer. I just returned from the pool, and there we all chat and swim and joke that the blue water may be as close...
Bear Spotted in the Area
They put up bear warning signs on trailheads, so why not on telephone poles in town? There is more bear sign on townsite streets than area trails, and now there is a wounded, big brown bear in the bushes across the street from the school, who kept the children in at...
A Chilkoot Trail
I can't cut up meat and wrap it while I'm still on my first cup of coffee, but Chip can. He has been up for a few hours, and the kitchen looks like a butcher shop and smells like clean blood. The dogs are watching him nervously from the hall. They always seem to be...
Postcard Perfect Toilets
There was frost on the car when I headed out to Morning Muscles at six and a nearly full moon. The Chilkat Center was packed with fit ladies. The talk afterwards was about the new toilets going in just down the hill at Portage Cove for cruise ship passengers....
Women are Better
You know how when wives, say, accidentally leave a coffee cup on the hood of the car at Mountain Market and drive off as it bounces in the mud, oblivious, and how husbands tend to make a lot of jokes about that? As if forgetting is something men never do? So what is...
Speaking Friday Night (22nd) in Juneau
I'll be giving a talk in Juneau Friday night at UAS-- here's the scoop. (Thanks to my friend Katie at UAS...)
Fall and Flamenco
It's not just the snow on the mountains that signal winter is coming. You can tell the weather is closing in and fall is in the air when 20 women show up for Morning Muscles at 6 am on a Tuesday morning to have Marnie put us through our paces with weights and sit ups...