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Telephone Tuesday. Make a Call (or Three)
“The entire edifice of American justice is built on the conviction that there is no guilt without proof beyond reasonable doubt — and that there is no unimportant person, at least not in the eyes of the law.” – Bret Stephens Lisa Murkowski 202-224-6665, Dan Sullivan...
Courage and Heart
I think today is as good as any, to remind you (and me) as my friend Becky says: to be kind, be brave, be thankful. It's the first blizzard of the year. Papa Bob is snoozing through it. So are all the children in town. It is a snow day. (It's supposed to snow and blow...
Screens Home and Away
Sunday morning was spent in a reading room Zoom with Dina Nayeri (The Ungrateful Refugee) and Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere) for the Alaska Quarterly Review’s 40th anniversary benefit series. (I know. I am star struck, too.) They were funny, smart and normal....
An Old Time Feeling
One joy of these Covid days has been hosting Friday's Back Country radio show on KHNS, often in the company of my grandaughter Caroline. It's social, but very distant-- since the company we are with are all at home, or work, or maybe in their cars or trucks. The...
A Writer’s Workout
We wake up at five- (well, Chip does, that's when Trixie and Pearl climb on the bed and we nap for 15 minutes or so before joining him.) After coffee with half & half, quiet talking and listening to the NPR news, he goes to workout above the garage and I turn on...
Sunday’s Thought
Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty’s visitation affects us and invites us into rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the beautiful. A life without delight is only half of life. –...
Made for Joy
My brain has been so scattered -- or full- or maybe simply multi-directional, if that's such a thing, that I'm dizzy, what with all the organizing for Alaska Reads, and the continued Bears and Ballots interviews and events, the family texts and facetimes from my...