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How to Help Alaskans Right Now
The best way to help the thousands displaced and suffering because of the recent storms in Western Alaska-- which is a long way from Haines, too-- is right here: through the Alaska Community Foundation's special relief fund . This same foundation helped Haines when we...
Sunday’s Thought
"The world is already split open, and it is our destiny to heal it, each in our own way, each in our own time, with the gifts that are ours." Terry Tempest Williams
Sunday’s Thought
"Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-- smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all- do it for peace. " Mother Teresa
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...
Monday Moon and those Booms.
Usually when I drive to the pool at 5:50 everyone on my road is still asleep. The windows are dark, well, except for the holiday strings that hopefully will stay on until the daylight catches up with the darkness. We will pass 7 hours today for the first time. There...
Sunday’s Thought
“Sensitivity to the mystery of living is the essence of human dignity. It is the soil in which our consciousness has its roots, and out of which a sense of meaning is derived. Man does not live by explanations alone, but by the sense of wonder and mystery.”-- Rabbi...
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...