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Dec 7 : Let There be Light
A Poem from Mary Oliver called "Praying": "It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway...
A Blog to a Column
Regular readers may be interested to see what happened when I edited the blog Hunting 101 for the Alaska Dispatch News We Alaskans Sunday magazine. I only had a day to do it, and I liked the tone of the blog, but it was, well, bloggy. Informal, written in one take....
I Am Definitely a Talker
It's funny that today I have no voice, am home sick all day, but that I have learned I'm a finalist for the Society of Voice Artists awards. http://sovas.org/2015-nominees/ SOVA chose my new book Find the Good as one of four author-read audio book nominees—...
Election News
Can you tell I'm leaving for a few days and want to be sure to keep you updated on all things large and small? Here is the latest (unofficial until certified results) from the Haines Borough web page, on yesterday's municipal election. My friend Margaret Friedenauer...
I’ll Be in Anchorage Tomorrow Night
To help celebrate Alaska Book Week I will be in Anchorage at Barnes and Noble 6-8 Thursday night. I hope I'm reading from Find the Good, but it may just be a signing-- ( I guess I am living in the moment...) See you there? Time to walk Pearl and pack!
Stewing Over a Moose
When I showed a friend a picture of the last pile of white packages on my table, and said that our moose is now all wrapped and the freezer, he deadpanned that it didn’t look like a wrapped moose. Chip and the kids did most the work—trimming meat off the bone, and...
Sunday’s Thought
"The search is the meaning, the search for beauty, love, kindness and restoration in this difficult, wired and messy era of ours. The miracle is that we are here, no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is...