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Dec. 28 What’s in a Name?
"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself." - Alan Alda "Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, 'Why me?' Then a voice answers,'Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.' "- Charlie Brown Chip spent the night on the window seat in a...
Election Day. Finally! Please Vote.
Why did I decide to run for Haines Borough Assembly? As if I don't have enough going on? It's sort of a long story-- My husband and I came to Haines in early 1984 so he could work for the sawmill. Chip was trained as a forester, and has a Masters' degree in...
Vote Tomorrow! 7am-8pm Chilkat Center & Kelhini Valley Fire Hall
In the last election, just 38% of the registered voters in Haines cast a ballot. Honestly, aren't we more engaged than that? I still think that voting in Alaska should be linked to our permanent fund dividend check. If you don't vote you don't get one. I also think...
Monday Morning News
Today's to-do list: 9:15 Walk Pearl 10:30 Chat with the Alaska Broadcaster's Association about my keynote speech to them Nov. 10 11:00 Bring the fuchsias and geraniums in for the winter and if there is time cut back the dahlias. There could be a frost anytime and I...
Sunday’s Thought
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” ― Mary...
Oh These Lovely Days
The North really showed off for the visit of the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge and the little prince and princess-- both day and night with sunny skies, golden leaves, and wild northern lights. It's hard to believe they were so close-- Whitehorse and then Carcross,...
Spools and Threads
There's a great line in Anne Tyler's novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, in which one of the characters, Red, a builder and now grandfather, declares that caller ID is like cheating-- It seems to me, he says, that you should have to pick up the phone and take your chances....