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Lucky Dec. 13– Maybe?
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.”- Satchel Paige “Fulfill now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be best for us…” Book of Common Prayer Weds. Dec. 13 Chilkat River Beach. 9:45 am. Snow and rain, 33 degrees. Gusty south...
Nice to be Home
We play this game at the Seattle airport: who ever sees someone we know first has to buy the other breakfast. It took Chip about ten minutes to win, and of course Nelle and Larry came over to our table and chatted and we all talked about our vacations. Then at the...
Adios! (For a few weeks…)
Chip and I are off to a quiet little town in Mexico today and I should be back at my desk in about three weeks. There will be sketchy internet where we are going, but I am choosing to ignore it and the only tablet I'm bringing has paper pages and requires a pen to...
Sunday’s Thought
This is a thought I stole from the back page of the new Hospice of Haines newsletter, and is a favorite quote of my friend Beth, the HOH director. I think it is a very good one to begin 2016 with. Reverend Carolyn Colbert says: "I have this notion that we live in sea...
Monday’s Thought
I kind of missed Sunday's Thought. (I am feeling like the mouse who was not stirring in Madeleine's Christmas, because 'like everyone else in that house which was old, the mouse was in bed with a terrible cold'.) Luckily it didn't come on until after everyone left...
Merry Christmas
On Earth Peace, Good Will Toward All.
The Eve of the Christmas Eve
It is tad crazy here, in the best way-- plus the snow is so beautiful and deep and white it's like Mother Nature gave the whole town new clothes for Christmas. Here's a post card: