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Bees Knees
This morning, while I was watching the little kids so their parents could get out, I had a note from a friend: "I can picture you in a state of perpetual bliss surrounded by all of the grandkids." Well, I am smiling a lot, that is true, and feel like I am on my best...
Life is Fragile
At church on Sunday we sang the funeral hymns-- Amazing Grace, Love Divine all Loves Excelling - and Jan (our priest) gave a sermon based on the lesson-- sort of-- it was the one about Jesus not being a prophet in his hometown, just a carpenter and someones kid...
The Final Woman’s Day Column
My last column for Woman's Day is in the July issue (that's why you can't find me in the August issue)-- I'm sorry to say. It's funny that I posted what I thought was the last one on facebook last week, but it wasn't-- I wrote the columns four months ahead, so it gets...
Just Now, When I Needed It.
How nice was this to wake up to? As W.S. Merwin writes in his poem Just Now: In the morning as the storm begins to blow away the clear sky appears for a moment and it seems to me that there has been something simpler than I could ever believe simpler than I could...
Sunday’s Thought
From Margert Craven's novel, I Heard the Owl Call My Name-- "But when I reach here, and see the great scar where the inlet side shows its bones, for a moment I know." "What my lord?" "That for me it has always been easier here where only fundamentals count, to learn...
Memorial for Richard Boyce set for July 12
The Boyce family has scheduled a memorial & potluck for Richard at the Ft. Seward Parade Grounds next Thursday (July 12) beginning at 4 PM. Bring a dish to share and a story to tell after the eulogy. They have scheduled the event after the weekly gillnet opening so...
Finding the Good in a Fisherman’s Death
Richard Boyce's friends and fellow fisherman Jim Syzmanski and his wife Randa aim to buy new inflatable suspenders for the rubber bib overalls of every fisherman in the Haines fleet. Jim told me yesterday at the cannery picnic that some good must come of Dick's...