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Rain, Time and Love
I have always been terrible with titles, and so I know this one isn't very clever but I have never let that stop me. I used to write columns for the Anchorage Daily News and Woman's Day and the editors always picked the titles so I never had to think about them. I...
I Love You
At our Hospice of Haines board meeting this week we passed the tissues. Vince began the meeting with a prayer, and asked that we keep Mary Miles in our hearts as her husband had suddenly died. Nancy said grieving is hard, and you never really get over losing someone,...
Joking JJ
So, my daughter JJ was once featured on the Prairie Home Companion annual joke show. She was about ten, and her joke was about introducing hamburgers, the punchline was "meat Patty." Anyway, JJ missed the joke show this year (it was last weekend) but had hoped we...
A Basketball Post Card
Here are a few images of the second Skagway-Haines basketball game. The mighty Panthers won it. They played fast and passed the ball hard, sank three-pointers and were fun to watch. Here's Coach Elliott and Coach DeWitt on the bench. Haines scores. Fans watch the...
Something Funny
I wrote a little sketch on snowshoeing on Mt. Ripinsky for National Geographic Traveler that was just shared in the latest edition of the news magazine, The Week. So far so good. But as soon as anyone googles Mt. Ripinsky + snowshoeing they'll find Tom Morphet's...
Home of the Brave
Sometimes the best teamwork is not on the basketball court. After school superintendent Michael Byer announced the players and coaches for the Lady Glacier Bears and Wrangell Lady Wolves Saturday night, he said, "And now with the presentation of our national anthem,...
Trying To Smile Without Miles
We heard the emergency broadcast on an EMT's pager at church, the voice said there was a 63 year old man, unresponsive on Mosquito Lake, CPR had begun. When the service was over another EMT, arriving to pick up his wife said the man hadn't made it, but couldn't, as...