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Sunday’s Thought
I could have written yesterday, to you-- or begun that new book- or just a poem for me, but I stopped and smelled the lilacs, and took a bike ride with my husband and then went to the first Little League game of the season and watched my granddaughters, in real...
A Spring Beach Walk Postcard
A beach walk with Auntie JJ (Joanna Jeanne) and Baby CC (Caroline Cooper) and of course, Forte. Like Cher and Bono, the happy water dog has one name. (Also, note grandma's blooming cherry tree.) Also, that boot on JJ's lower leg is because of a stress fracture from...
A Little Business
The good news is that the paperback of Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs is a hit, and has made the Indie bookstores national bestseller list, (#39 this week) and the Pacific Northwest booksellers bestseller list. (#13.) But, you may have heard on the radio...
A Little News
In real news, two young Haines artists have been given big awards. Writer Rosie McGuire and artist Sarah Cohen both earned Rasmuson Foundation grants yesterday, congratulations! Rosie grew up at Lutak, but lives in Cordova now where she fishes commercially with her...
Art and Dirt
My back is sore, my knees hurt, and at Morning Muscles yesterday the 8lb weights were a lot heavier than usual. It is spring, and that means digging, painted, pruning, burning and fixing stuff up. In my neighborhood gardens are being turned over, trees trimmed, one...
A Few Life Lessons from the Dead
I wrote two obituaries for the Chilkat Valley News last week. Seamstress and homemaker Beverly Craig (70) died in Oregon, she and her husband Chauncey lived in Haines for many years before kidney failure meant she needed to move closer to a hospital back in 1992....
Of Hummingbirds and Hunters
I was on my into the grocery store when I saw Doug Olerud come out of the sports shop next door with a hummingbird feeder and then prop the door wide open. I was just thinking about Doug, and what a good advocate he was for the library when he was on the borough...