I live and write on Lingít Aaní, and gratefully acknowledge the past, present and future caretakers of this beautiful place, the Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan.
Without warning thresholds can open directly before our feet. These thresholds are often shorelines to new worlds.- John O’Donohue In the fall of 2021, I visited a clairvoyant in Haines. She told me that my dream would be coming true in the new year. You...
An Alaskan- based writer wins a Pulitzer Prize! Tessa Hulls was at work making sandwiches for state lawmakers at the capital in Juneau yesterday when she heard she had won. Here is the story from the Beacon. Her book Feeding Ghosts is a graphic memoir about three...
“But a sober look at our world shows that the degree of human intervention, often in the service of business interests and consumerism, is actually making our earth less rich and beautiful, ever more limited and grey, even as technological advances and consumer goods...
“There is joy in all”– from Welcome Morning, a poem by Anne Sexton. First let’s get our bearings: 6:10 am. Light. It’s raining, lightly, not much wind, the buds are greening, so is the seaweed and the grass. The tide is out and the...
“The entire edifice of American justice is built on the conviction that there is no guilt without proof beyond reasonable doubt — and that there is no unimportant person, at least not in the eyes of the law.” – Bret Stephens Lisa Murkowski 202-224-6665, Dan Sullivan...
“Come with rain, O loud southwester!/ Bring the singer, bring the nester/” – Robert Frost, from his poem “To a Thawing Wind.” 3:30 pm, 35 degrees, stormy, small craft advisory for southerly gusts to 40 knots. Rough seas and whitecaps. Feels like snow (it is in the...
