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Alaska Quarterly Review Literary Series Continues
I'm looking forward to this event with terrific poets Pattiann Rogers and Laura Kolbe next Friday-- mark it on your calendar. Laura Kolbe is a doctor and medical ethicist in New York whose book Little Pharma is one of the most anticipated publications of 2021 and...
Of Ice and Air
On Sunday afternoon coach Liam Cassidy and I took the Haines High cross-country team to the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, and even these Alaskan kids were wowed by its rough beauty and force. The weather helped, (we were in summer clothes) so did a pretty girl in...
Good Knight Baby
That's the decal Lexie gave to Kendra Knight at the baby shower last night. It's for the wall over her soon to be Baby Boy Knight's crib. How sweet is that? Kendra's mother, Frankie, told the women assembled that when the baby comes, we will be the ones supporting...
Summer in September
Today is my oldest daughter Eliza's birthday, she is 27 and teaching fourth grade in Juneau. It is hard to believe it is already 60 degrees and sunny at 10 am. On a few September sixteens we have had a thin layer of ice on the puddles in the morning .(And just about...
Counting Heads and Antlers
My first column For Woman's Day will run in November, and it is a bit of an introduction to Haines. Yesterday a magazine fact checker inquired about my population number, "About 2200, but I don't think everyone has ever been home at the same time." She had found other...
Terry Tempest Williams Talks
"I never need water," Terry Tempest Williams said, apologizing, coughing, and reaching for the water bottle handed to her by an event organizer. The white haired author of one of my favorite books, Refuge, among many others, was getting ill just talking to the...
Yakutat and Back
I swear, I get homesick now at about Eldred Rock. I am so happy to be home that I'm having trouble sitting at my desk. But I did want to touch base, since I have been computer-less since Friday. What a great trip-- the weather was so perfect that I had to remind...