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Sunday’s Thought(s)
"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it." - W. Somerset Maugham Sometimes wonder sneaks up on you. Here we were, sipping coffee, nibbling...
One Thing Always Leads to Another
A friend who had asked a favor of me said, "I know you are very busy, but..." Actually, I'm not that busy right now. I'm being kind of lazy. The other day, after my bike ride and dog walk and breakfast I sat down and watched an episode of the Great British Baking Show...
And Now It’s August
Last night a big bear walked right down the beach just as I got home from the assembly meeting. I may have missed him had my phone not pinged with texts from neighbors: Brown bear on its way to you on the beach from the south-- The bear just walked right by. He's big...
Thanks for Missing Me
I have been finishing a book...Done! It will be published in June 2020 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, the same publisher and editor that have made all my books happen, and as they like to say: details to come, and I turned 60 and got the best present ever from my...
A Postcard from the Middle
When I was a kid, I played with my cousins at my grandmother's house in Pennsylvania for two weeks every summer. There were five of us all staying in her house along with our parents, although the fathers didn't stay as long as the mothers, and the mothers played a...
Don’t Worry
I am fine, it's just life is so full right now with everything happening at once. We have been training for the annual Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay. It's on Saturday, and Chip and I each ride half the distance from Haines Junction in the Yukon to Fort...
May Showers
When it rains it doesn't really pour, at least not so far even though the weather bureau predicts it with 90{5dd4a9335f863afff62689815e725074c6cea4f6c8174ae51f0890ca19300d65} certainty. It's been windy and cold and gray though, and with the change in the weather come...