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“What if Christmas doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” – Dr. Seuss
It has been a really busy day.. and finally, a few moms and a grandma did a little yoga, where we learned that "pop off" or "popping off" is the Australian word for fart. Don't ask. Also, I had to go to the dentist today to fix a failed filling and fell asleep in the...
At the Post-Op Hotel in Anchorage
I have the Internet, public radio, a few good books, peanut butter, rice cakes, apples, Perrier and a huge flat screen TV to watch the debate and the baseball game on, which is a long way of saying I'm as comfortable as I can be away from home and that this is why...
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...