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Light Perpetual Shines on Pearl
" I couldn't believe that she was gone...I could feel that something huge, a tide, had washed in, and then washed out." - Anne Lamott on the death of her old dog. Yesterday we buried Pearl. We weren't home when she died in January, and it was deep winter, so the kids...
Some News
I was in Juneau for a wedding (more on that later) when Variety announced that my books are being turned into a semi-fictional TV drama series-- Here's the official scoop. I really am excited (and a little nervous) to be part of all of this. I have a whole lot of...
I Love This Place
Poet Maggie Smith writes that "the tall summer field is a keeper of secrets" in her poem Rasp, that arrived in my poem-a-day inbox yesterday. I haven't meant to keep secrets from you- but I had to leave home suddenly on the 4th of July and was too rattled by my...
Summertime and the Livin’ is..crazy?
I drop everything for house guests, and when they are family even more so and it's been a full house for a few weeks now, what with the kids from Juneau and now my dad, Papa Bob, is here. There is also something about the days after Solstice that makes me feel like...
Roses and Toast
Cycling back into town after an eventful spin along the muddy Chilkat River this morning all I smelled were roses and toast. The wild roses are doing much better with the cool gray weather than my geraniums, and when it is only 50 and nearly July, the campers in the...
A Happy Week
It's been busy, what with the kids from Juneau here, making six grandchildren in town at once. Babysitting at nap time is my duty, and seeing as how baby Molly often sleeps on my bed and I don't want her to roll off, I have no choice but to catch up on summer reading....
Snow in June. Really.
I've been meaning to check in after the bike race. I'm fine! We actually had the best ride ever on stages 7 & 8 from the border into town, racing a Canadian friend and pedaling into the wind at an average of 20 mph. The road was dry and it was windy, gray, and cool.So...