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Where I Am
"Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed."- Mary Oliver ... And this was where i was at 8 am , with JJ cutting Chip's hair." Make sure everyone sees my muscles" Chip said. And I have to say, it was a Papa Bob moment. He flexed a lot and used...
Small Things Considered
Here is my essay for this week's Small Things Considered Feature on KHNS. Rosalie Loewen and Debi Knight-Kennedy are regular contributors too, if you'd like to do one, or more, contact Margaret at 766-2020, or email me and we'll help you. When I heard that Oklahoma!...
Almost Winter
The best guesses as to when the first snow will fall at sea level out the road are on the "snow board" at 33-Mile, and I'm afraid my friend Lea who lives out there didn't win. She said in church on Sunday that she chose October 15. But it's getting close. Some folks...
Sunday’s Thought
"The reward of a lifetime of reading is a rich acquaintanceship with those gentle or powerful or rebellious or acceptant, those greatly mixed and humanly variable but always greatly human ghosts." Wallace Stegner
Not as Quiet as it Looks in Haines
Tonight the planning commission meets at 6:30 in the council chambers and one of the items on the agenda is a potential mine at the base of Mt. Riley, about a mile down the road from my house. It is on state and mental health trust land apparently, but is basically...
Natural News
Well, teacher Pam Randles and her Takshanuk Watershed Council Citizen Scientists from the high school, and Chilkat Forest Investigators from the elementary school have solve the mystery of the woodchuck living in our chicken coop. They caught the shy little guy on a...
Family News
First, I am pleased to report that my sister-in-law, Karen O'Connor (the Olympian we all went to London to see) is okay after a bad fall on Saturday at a horse trial in Virginia. Her horse, Veronica, is doing even better than she is. Grandma Joanne said Karen injured...