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Dec 16 Light and Good Will
"Christmas has a special delight- as though the season is cheering you on."-- Jeanette Winterson Dec. 16, Saturday, 11:15 am, 30 degrees, low tide, calm winds, fresh snow. About as perfect a soft December morning as they make. (Late again-- I had to put the sandwich...
Rainy Tuesday Evening Postcard
April showers will bring April leaves-- the next time the sun comes out, which may be Friday. In the meantime it's been a little wet and windy and kind of chilly-- 45 and rain is colder than you'd think. The beach is not so much fun when you are walking into rainy...
John Schnabel’s Eulogy
John's Truck We sent John Schnabel off with the kind of party he would have liked on Saturday, with lots of people, lots of food, the Fishpickers band playing, and...
That Kind of Week. (Lucky me.)
I fought with my forgotten Skype IDs and passwords for two days so I could talk with an interviewer in South Korea for ten minutes, entertained guests-- twice--, had a eulogy to write for John Schnabel (still working on it.. it's "due" by his memorial service at 4:00...
Gold Medal Women
Yup, the Haines women won the Gold Medal tourney in Juneau this weekend, and after we all arrived home on the ferry at noon yesterday, took naps, and had a quiet Easter dinner, we all went to bed. I was asleep by eight. I didn't even play and I was exhausted by the...
Welcome Happy Morning
I know it is Maundy Thursday-- the night of the Last Supper, and tomorrow is Good Friday, and Easter isn't until Sunday, but it is a moveable feast, and it sure feels like a happy morning today after so much sorrow and stress and grief the last two weeks--...
The Matter is Life
Writer J. California Copper wrote that it's not so hard to face death-- as we all have to, and so really have no choice--the challenge she said was living. So you may ask, "Where have been, what's the matter?" and to that I respond with her words-- "The matter is...