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Lights in the Dark
"When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken- to everything in the universe." - John Muir I bought a new flashlight for my dinner date last night, since even though it was early—5:30, it...
Kindness
The book is done. My assembly term is over. Fall is here. Everything that kept me busy for months and months, from bicycling to writing and all those meetings -- the daily schedule beginning with two hours in the saddle, watering the garden, re-habbing the dog with...
One Thing Always Leads to Another
A friend who had asked a favor of me said, "I know you are very busy, but..." Actually, I'm not that busy right now. I'm being kind of lazy. The other day, after my bike ride and dog walk and breakfast I sat down and watched an episode of the Great British Baking Show...
And Now It’s August
Last night a big bear walked right down the beach just as I got home from the assembly meeting. I may have missed him had my phone not pinged with texts from neighbors: Brown bear on its way to you on the beach from the south-- The bear just walked right by. He's big...
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...