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Love in the time of Spiders
"We are living in a time when laughter is rare. That is all the more reason to look for it. The things that make you smile, the things that lift your spirit: seek them and share them as widely as you can." - Steven Charleston, retired Episcopal bishop of Alaska Yes,...
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. –...
Made for Joy
My brain has been so scattered -- or full- or maybe simply multi-directional, if that's such a thing, that I'm dizzy, what with all the organizing for Alaska Reads, and the continued Bears and Ballots interviews and events, the family texts and facetimes from my...
A Few Things Bright and Beautiful
We have been moose hunting a lot, which really means sitting very quietly for many hours in beautiful places, silently watching and listening, and after a while, sometimes napping and reading. I finished 2 1/2 novels, and an entire New Yorker, and a bunch of short...
September, So Far
When this is finally over ('The Virus') as the little kids say, in a deep whisper, I will never say no to an invitation to coffee, or wine, or dinner or a party or even decorating the library for the holidays even though I'm not crafty at all and can't untangle...