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Another Heather You Should Read
A quick note from my desk to yours about historian Heather Cox Richardson and her daily "Letters from an American" posts. I subscribe and read it religiously. She is wise, writes well and is calm and brave. There are footnotes too, so you can check her sources....
Love Letters
My dad spent the night at my sister's last night, because they we sort of snowed in with the sudden snow squall after dinner and it seemed best not to drive down the hill to our house. Chip has gone deer hunting for a few weeks, and had left on the ferry in the early...
Courage and Heart
I think today is as good as any, to remind you (and me) as my friend Becky says: to be kind, be brave, be thankful. It's the first blizzard of the year. Papa Bob is snoozing through it. So are all the children in town. It is a snow day. (It's supposed to snow and blow...
Screens Home and Away
Sunday morning was spent in a reading room Zoom with Dina Nayeri (The Ungrateful Refugee) and Celeste Ng (Little Fires Everywhere) for the Alaska Quarterly Review’s 40th anniversary benefit series. (I know. I am star struck, too.) They were funny, smart and normal....
An Old Time Feeling
One joy of these Covid days has been hosting Friday's Back Country radio show on KHNS, often in the company of my grandaughter Caroline. It's social, but very distant-- since the company we are with are all at home, or work, or maybe in their cars or trucks. The...
A Writer’s Workout
We wake up at five- (well, Chip does, that's when Trixie and Pearl climb on the bed and we nap for 15 minutes or so before joining him.) After coffee with half & half, quiet talking and listening to the NPR news, he goes to workout above the garage and I turn on...
Sunday’s Thought
Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty’s visitation affects us and invites us into rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the beautiful. A life without delight is only half of life. –...