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Sunday’s Thought
I'm home, after cleaning out my parents' old house on the farm they loved, and saying goodbye to all of it. Yes, it's a lot. I promised myself I wouldn't take too much stuff, that I'd be good about tossing, weeding, giving it away. Then I filled an old steamer truck...
Return to Sender, Address Unknown
This morning I got an email that a royalty check had been returned to my publisher. It was addressed to me, at 936 Mud Bay Road, Haines, AK 99827. Right up front I'll admit that is not my legal address, as there is no home mail delivery in Haines, but I have been...
Enjoying the Passage of Time
For Debra's 59th birthday she said she wanted to eat hot dogs cooked over a fire on the beach. She didn't think a lot of other people would be too thrilled about sitting on a potentially cold and windy April beach, so planned to make it fairly loose. You know, "stop...
April Showers
It was something to look and see this when I woke up Monday morning, especially after such a sunny Sunday evening. But we all know that snow can fall in any month, and snow in April is common. The good news is that winter snow and spring snow have completely...
Sunday’s Thought
I was under the weather yesterday, but managed to rally briefly for Ellen's memorial service before returning to bed. While I was napping, my neighbor Betty dropped off an Easter book by Tasha Tudor, the Vermont author and illustrator (A Time to Keep.)...
The Woman’s Day Choir Column
At choir practice last night Nancy said the Woman's Day column on our choir was now on-line. So if you don't have a subscription, here it is. (I prefer to read paper magazines when I'm in the bathtub, myself.) I couldn't help noticing that the cooking editor likes...
April Fooling
This morning something jammed in the KHNS radio automation system, so we heard last Friday's April Fool's Day stories. The one about a new Alaska reality show called "Green Necks" really had me going, all over again. The joke was that logger Scott Rossman and clean...