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Some Good News
An Alaskan- based writer wins a Pulitzer Prize! Tessa Hulls was at work making sandwiches for state lawmakers at the capital in Juneau yesterday when she heard she had won. Here is the story from the Beacon. Her book Feeding Ghosts is a graphic memoir about three...
T H I N K
So there are 41 cases now, officially, and tests keep coming. The library is closed and the pool isn't going to open this week after all. The Bookstore is closed for the week. So is the Bamboo Room and Pioneer Bar. "We decided to play it safe," Christy, who with her...
It’s Okay to Not Be Okay…Again.
First the news: As of the latest official update from the Haines Borough EOC there are 25 Covid cases. ( Doubling Haines' total Covid count since the pandemic began.) I can count more than that in my circles of friends. It's hard to keep up, the cases are climbing,...
Waiting for the Storm (s)
So I was in bed this morning, and really, really tired, like four in the morning tired, when I rolled over and saw the clock reading 5:25. On a Monday morning? Chip was also still in bed. He's usually up at 4:30, I follow him at 5:00. Trixie had nudged her way onto...
Of Bears and Baking
So, how fresh is that bear poop? Just checking to see if it's still warm. (It's not.) My friend Beth took the picture because she thought it was funny. There is a little black bear hanging out in the neighborhood. He, or maybe she? (I did not get that up close and...
Fair Time
I was planning to write a story, or an essay-- anything really-- since Papa Bob is at my sister's house today, but there is a lot going on. The first Southeast Alaska State Fair in two years began yesterday here in Haines, just as all around us Covid-19 Delta strain...
Gold!
Oh Lydia Jacoby, Alaska's first gold medal swimmer, you made me cry I was so happy watching you win last night! (My pictures are not great, they came right off our TV which is not that great either.) The Anchorage Daily News reporter Beth Bragg has been covering the...