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Happy Birthday, Dear Life
“I could complain a little right here about the long years of back pain and occasional awful, heartbreak, but Lord, those were infinitesimal against the slather of gifts You gave mere me, a muddle of a man.” -Brian Doyle Henry, three, sent Chip a birthday video...
Something Funny
Yesterday I thought my monthly Zoom writing group ( terrific, wise and witty women from all over) met at 8 AM Alaska time. I said I might be a few minutes late, since when it is not raining, I have a daily 6 AM date with my hardworking husband to ride our bikes 30...
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...
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...
Summertime
And the living is easy-- well, at least compared to everywhere else. I took this picture on our way back from a morning bike ride to Chilkoot. Chip was tired so he didn't mind. It's been hot and busy. (There is a red flag wildfire danger warning through tomorrow...
Sunday’s Thought
“There are no words, not in English, Spanish, Arabic, or Hebrew, that have been invented to explain what it’s like to lose a child. The nightmarish heartache of it. The unexplainable trepidation that follows... The child may be gone, but the years the child...
Homer, Home and Henry
Yesterday I opened a crate of stuff I'd shipped from Dad's farm to Haines. It has been in the barn at our lumberyard for two weeks, since it arrived just as I headed off to Homer for a week at The Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. I was inspired by Toni Jensen,...