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Family Love
Family love is the title of the group texts everyone is sending with all the photos and news and plans for the day. We have a full house because Grandma Joanne and Chip's sister Karen have made the epic trek from Ocala to Haines. Karen was hoping to fly down to...
O Christmas Tree
There's a lot of snow, all of it light and fluffy thanks to the cold and wind. This must be the third (or maybe fourth?) winter storm we've had with the warning of a foot of more-- which we already have and there's no signs of it slowing down. I'm wishing the radio...
Home for the Holidays
I was supposed to be in Juneau to read a piece I wrote about the Snow Dragon, the parade, and the Lighting of the Fort-- my favorite Haines Christmas traditions, for a KTOO and 360 North holiday special on Thursday, visit my daughters, and then from Juneau head up...
Sunday’s Thought
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.” -- Anne Lamott
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Winter storm warnings continue through 4pm today, with an additional 4-10 inches predicted, and it's blowing all over and colder. The roads are better this morning than they were yesterday afternoon, the plow guys are doing a great job, but be sure to dress for the...
Glad Tidings of Great Joy.
"Sometimes our best efforts do not go amiss," writes Sheenagh Pugh, in her poem Sometimes, which I've been reciting all morning with gratitude and a happy heart, because last night the Haines Borough Assembly voted to zone the Chilkat Beaches recreational and...
Farewell to a Good Priest.
It's sort of funny that Father Jim Blaney's Sitka funeral mass was streamed live on the web since he didn't approve of the Internet. He was a face-to-face kind of guy who talked frankly, loudly, and often, to everyone, anywhere. He was 76 when he died December 4...