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I’m Comfortable & That’s Why I Should Talk About Guns.
Yesterday I was reading emails and I saw a familiar name (I have readers, friends sort of now, who write or comment regularly), and Lora began her latest note like this : As a “Find the Good” kind of person, these senseless shootings have my heart aching to find good...
The News from Small-town Alaska reaches…Florida?
I had a nice email this morning from a woman in Florida who has read my books and now reads the Chilkat Valley News and recently blogged about us-- here is the link, and a picture of the now famous Pilot Paul himself. (And his really cool red plane. On an April...
A Sure “Sign” of Alaska Spring Postcard
Getting ready for the cruise ship season in Fort Seward with a new sign for an old business, Dejon Delights salmon smokery. That's the owner, Daymond Hoffman in the cap, his mother started the business and he and a partner now run it.
It’s Beer & Salmon Weekend in Alaska
Everywhere else is in the country this is Memorial Day Weekend, but here in Haines it is beer and salmon weekend. (We need to come up with a catchy name to market all of this. It slipped through the cracks. This is what happens when for 100 years you've had a town...
A Small-town Alaska High School Graduation
Everyone agreed it was a very good graduation. The Valedictorian, Abby Jones, who will be playing basketball at a community college in Washington next year, and who plans to major in education, communication, and psychology, spoke sincerely, sweetly, and succinctly...
Sunday’s Thought
"YHWH [Yaweh] is definitely a verb form. We can take comfort in the certain knowledge that God is a verb, not a noun or an adjective." - Thomas Cahill
A Recipe for the Perfect Cup of Coffee
Start with an extra hour of sleep on Saturday morning, be sure the window is open so you can hear the crows and the gulls and the tide flowing past Pyramid Island. It helps if the sheets are old and soft and have been dried on the line, and that the pillows are lumpy...