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A Last Day of Family Christmas Thought.
"In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again. This time you give, and the next time you recieve." -- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass.
Sunday’s Thought
A Haines pre-Christmas Postcard
The house is filling up, and so are the fridge and the pantry. I still have to wrap a few things, and even do a little last minute shopping- but I figure if I can't get it in Haines, I don't need it anyway. It is very cold-- zero at 2 when the sun set this afternoon,...
A Christmas Coffee Cake Tradition From My Home to Yours
Once a year I bake Grandma Smith's sour cream coffee cake. We have it every Christmas morning. That means I've done it for thirty years now. (Before that my mother did)-- And once a year, about this time, I can't find the recipe. I look through all the cookbooks that...
Home for the Holidays
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and feel like it, with the tree up and fresh snow, and cards and gifts arriving daily in the mail. The Post Office crew reminds everyone to please pick up our packages. Yesterday my daughter and son-in-law came by on...
A Holly Jolly Dragon of a December Weekend Postcard
From walking on the beach in the beautiful dusky dawn of these short December days, a family breakfast, the Snow Dragon and parade with Pizza Joe and the Uglys Gifts for Grub dinner, to the Holly Jolly Follies Christmas show--Little Dave was a terrific tree, "Bruce...
Sunday’s Thought
When I heard what happened in Connecticut I couldn't breathe. All those innocent little children, and good school teachers killed-- two of my daughters are elementary teachers-- and now more details emerge. Names. Olivia, Charlotte, Emilie. Where is God in this? I...