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Nov 22 Home!
The truth is that it's just really hard for me to sleep without a dog in my bedroom.- Jimmy Stewart Haines, where the Chilkat River meets the sea in my backyard. 2:00 pm, 37 degrees, low tide. Snow and slush. High clouds and a south wind. It's been a long travel and...
Chilkat Morning Postcard (and a bit of a community calendar)
These Chilkat mornings are slaying me. They begin all foggy and still, and then the clouds lift and everything swirls all white and blue and green. You'd think a person would be used to it when you see it everyday, but that's not true. The neighbors and the dog...
Thursday? Already? Seriously?
My life is revolving around play rehearsals and all the other to-doings associated with it. (Feb. 27,28 and March 1 in the Chilkat Center.) I have to make my hair darker, iron my costume. Find socks, and reading glasses. And a tea pot. It was very good last night that...
Teach Your Children Well
The say that there is some Biblical thing- a curse even-- that prevents women from recalling the pain of child birth so we will have another baby, but there may be also a kind of magic that makes grandmothers forget how much work young children are. We have had two...
Sunday’s Thought
Lord make me an instrument of your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not...
Their Mom is 30 Today
I would like to tell you something profound about how I feel today-- kind of warm and teary, to tell you the truth- because 30 years ago this afternoon at 1 o'clock my daughter Sarah was born on the Haines clinic in a blizzard-- (WAIT! WHOOPS? Sarah wasn't born...
Oh My Gosh
I've been saying that a lot lately-- it has been beautiful-- as well as "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph." And "Mother of God," because of the play. I am Kate, a proper, pious woman. But sadly, things are all going to hell for her by the second act. (Although she would...