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Monday Moon and those Booms.
Usually when I drive to the pool at 5:50 everyone on my road is still asleep. The windows are dark, well, except for the holiday strings that hopefully will stay on until the daylight catches up with the darkness. We will pass 7 hours today for the first time. There...
Sunday’s Thought
In Bishop Desmond Tutu's book, God Has a Dream, he writes: So how do we ensure that goodness does prevail?...Our decisions--personal, corporate, at play, at home, in private and in public-- make the moral fabric of our society, indeed of the world. How we interact...
Change in the Weather
It's wet and windy today, about forty degrees warmer than last Saturday's sub-zero temperatures. A good day to be indoors timing the annual swim meet. Yesterday there was a a brief moment around two when the snow stopped and before the rain came blowing up from Juneau...
Photos of the Day
The ferry arrives with swimmers and basketball players for this weekend's competitions. Loading up the Wrangell Girls in the school van for the ride to town.
Gold Rush Alaska or…?
Tonight the Haines miners will no doubt lose another 1000 dollars and face imminent financial and personal ruin. It was fun to see Dorsey fishing with friend Greg Bigbsy in last week's show, and the summer scenery was terrific. But I can only willingly suspend...
Working, sort of.
I skidded and swerved in the new snow (it was deeper and slicker than I'd expected) up the hill and down again to Morning Muscles. It looks like Afternoon Muscles will be shoveling and hauling some firewood to the porch. What with Merry's passing (thank you for all...
A Dog’s Obituary
Here is Merry’s obituary, written in Chilkat Valley News style, though not published there, as editor Tom Morphet does not document dog deaths, unless they are news. Merry was never in the news. She led a private life, centered on her home and family. She did not...