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Leave the Light On: A Tenakee Dispatch
If I were young again, I'd pay attention to that little-known dimension, a taste of endless time. It's just like water- it runs right though your fingers.-- Chris Smithers from his song, "Leave the Light On" The power has been out a lot recently. It’s not the same at...
Thanks for Missing Me
I have been finishing a book...Done! It will be published in June 2020 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, the same publisher and editor that have made all my books happen, and as they like to say: details to come, and I turned 60 and got the best present ever from my...
A Postcard from the Middle
When I was a kid, I played with my cousins at my grandmother's house in Pennsylvania for two weeks every summer. There were five of us all staying in her house along with our parents, although the fathers didn't stay as long as the mothers, and the mothers played a...
Don’t Worry
I am fine, it's just life is so full right now with everything happening at once. We have been training for the annual Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay. It's on Saturday, and Chip and I each ride half the distance from Haines Junction in the Yukon to Fort...
May Showers
When it rains it doesn't really pour, at least not so far even though the weather bureau predicts it with 90{5dd4a9335f863afff62689815e725074c6cea4f6c8174ae51f0890ca19300d65} certainty. It's been windy and cold and gray though, and with the change in the weather come...
Sunday’s Thought
Almighty God, heavenly Father, you have blessed us with the joy and care of children: Give us calm strength and patient wisdom to bring them up, that we teach them to love whatever is just and true and good, following the example of our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen -...
Meet Teddy
You forget how tiny babies are, and as my daughter said, how big. It's amazing that all eight pounds of this little person was inside my slip of a girl until four days ago. Arms, legs, hair. Yesterday I started to tell her to be sure to drink plenty of water, and ask...