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Older and Wiser?
“It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience and makes the world he lives in.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson “So often our lives come down to a choice. Do I say this? Or do I say that? Or say nothing at all? Do...
No News is Good News
I have been out of town is all--Way out of town. About as far as you can go-- to the Aleutian chain, Unalaska and the Port of Dutch Harbor, helping my daughter move in for her new job at the school there. There is very limited email and cell service, which, to be...
Some News
I was in Juneau for a wedding (more on that later) when Variety announced that my books are being turned into a semi-fictional TV drama series-- Here's the official scoop. I really am excited (and a little nervous) to be part of all of this. I have a whole lot of...
I Love This Place
Poet Maggie Smith writes that "the tall summer field is a keeper of secrets" in her poem Rasp, that arrived in my poem-a-day inbox yesterday. I haven't meant to keep secrets from you- but I had to leave home suddenly on the 4th of July and was too rattled by my...
Summertime and the Livin’ is..crazy?
I drop everything for house guests, and when they are family even more so and it's been a full house for a few weeks now, what with the kids from Juneau and now my dad, Papa Bob, is here. There is also something about the days after Solstice that makes me feel like...
Roses and Toast
Cycling back into town after an eventful spin along the muddy Chilkat River this morning all I smelled were roses and toast. The wild roses are doing much better with the cool gray weather than my geraniums, and when it is only 50 and nearly July, the campers in the...
A Happy Week
It's been busy, what with the kids from Juneau here, making six grandchildren in town at once. Babysitting at nap time is my duty, and seeing as how baby Molly often sleeps on my bed and I don't want her to roll off, I have no choice but to catch up on summer reading....