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Fair Winds and Following Seas
"You wouldn't believe what once or twice I have seen. I'll just tell you this: only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one." -- Mary Oliver from The World I Live In, a poem. Captain Mark, who skippered tankers out of Valdez was sent off like...
Haines Timber Sale Comments Due May 22
Pyramid Harbor is scheduled to be logged by the University of Alaska The University of Alaska and "a bona fide purchaser" (according to their website but as yet unnamed) will be entering into a 10-year negotiated sale to harvest timber on the University’s "Haines...
Monday’s Thoughts
“(Parents are) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.” ― Jodi Picoult, House Rules I had planned to leave a a nice Sunday's Thought about Mother's Day, especially since being a mother is...
Rummage Tale
Let's begin with the confession that I don't like rummage sales, and other people's stuff in large quantities on big tables with everyone shuffling through it for a good deal. It gives me the hives. Stay with me, because this ends with a story to make Antique Road...
Sunday’s Thought
“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a...
Blame it on the Moon and May.
It is May first. The weather feels more like March 15, with cold southerly gales and stubby brown grass and black branches, but there are signs of spring: hawks, bears, a cow moose moving in the woods, and rafts of ducks and scoters. There are boxes of nice stuff...
Sunday’s Thought
"Listen to no voice except your own. Ask yourself nothing about whom you hate. Ask only what you love, and what sustains you. And protect that."- Seth Kantner