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Sunday’s Thought
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. ― Ferris Bueller There is a committee concerned about traffic on the trail. The speed limit is 10 mph for 4-wheelers and bicycles. Walkers and dogs have the right of...
Alaska Quarterly Review Literary Series Continues
I'm looking forward to this event with terrific poets Pattiann Rogers and Laura Kolbe next Friday-- mark it on your calendar. Laura Kolbe is a doctor and medical ethicist in New York whose book Little Pharma is one of the most anticipated publications of 2021 and...
No Second Dart
I'm preparing for a busy fall, with Alaska Quarterly Review events (2 Fridays a month until April), a Zoom Find the Good meeting with the Kodiak library tonight, and Anchorage and Juneau November 3-8. If your group, library, school would like a Zoom (or real) visit,...
Good Days
October sunshine and fresh snow is especially welcome following the storm last weekend. Five inches of rain in 48 hours and gales raking the beach, the trees, the house. On the radar it looked like a hurricane, and in the middle of Saturday the eye passed over, and...
In the Spirit of September
September 11 was Chip's birthday, and it is always a little odd, both remembering and celebrating. Still, one thing I choose to hold onto about the terrorist attacks twenty years ago, is that everyone who was trapped in the towers or the Pentagon or on the plane that...
A Little Sept. Post Card
September is busting out all over. The good news is the bears are feeding on salmon in the river and look fat and happy, and that other hungry bear has not returned to the cabin, but Trixie still won't come inside. Also, we have had no Covid updates since last week,...
Of Bears and Burglars
So, we hiked up to the cabin to set up a tree stand for moose hunting and found that a bear had broken in the night before ( we are pretty sure, as we had been up there earlier in the week, and it had rained and the bear dragged in a lot of mud.) It was a shock. It...