I live and write on Lingít Aaní, and gratefully acknowledge the past, present and future caretakers of this beautiful place, the Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan.

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A Sign?

A Sign?

When my old friend and neighbor Betty, moved into Haines Assisted Living, her niece cleaned out her house and sold it and some of us helped. Betty had been quite a gardender in her day, and her basement workbench was full of dirt and seedling trays and dry old...

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A little light housekeeping

That's about all I'm doing these days for the company, as it is kind of bad manners to run the vacuum cleaner around people playing cards-- even if there is dog hair up to our ankles.  Also, in the good news department, I had three big things in June (well, sort of...

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A big salad bowl of love

One of my favorite wedding gifts for  Eliza and Justin is a huge spruce salad bowl about two feet across and a foot and a half deep that feeds  thirty people generously , as we did the other night.  It was turned by a local woodworker who is no longer with us, Guy...

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A Few Wedding Pictures

I didn't bring my camera to the wedding or any of the festivities-- from the Friday night pizza party at the Klondike Saloon hosted by the groom's family (I did order the weather though--sunny, 80 degrees!), to the big family and friends' decorating party at the Fort...

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Anxiety, Challenges, Skills and FLOW

I wish I could draw here, but I can't, so picture this: a graph with "Challenges" up the right side and "Skills" along the bottom, and a line at an angle that begins in the  lower corner where Challenges and Skills intersect and runs up to what would be the far corner...

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Phew, bike race well done now onto a wedding.

Between the bike race weekend-- setting up the finish line on Friday, packing up the bikes and gear and driving up to Haines Junction Yukon, racing all day Saturday, the clean up and gang at the house Sunday and then Father's Day dinner-- well, I have only walked by...

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