Dec 13, 2016 | Blog
My friend Teresa came by to meet little Miss Molly before we both left for home in Haines on the ferry yesterday. Teresa wedged about a dozen totes and coolers on the only baggage cart (what was the ferry thinking?) that were mostly full of her husband Larry’s...Dec 11, 2016 | Blog
“Give us grateful hearts, our Father, for all thy mercies, and make us mindful of the needs of others; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” — from the Book of Common Prayer Dec 10, 2016 | Blog
Little Molly Frances is here! ( All 6. lbs.15 oz and 19 inches… and what about her hair? Well, It has a reddish tinge.. so time will tell.) Mother and baby are well. The rest of us are too.Having a December baby makes singing “Joy to the World” that...Dec 9, 2016 | Blog
Eliza has been very busy while we wait. Knitting. Baking. Making origami ornaments. James has even been painting, and his mother has made a nice holiday display of his art work. (Clearly a gifted child!) Me? I mostly make messes and take pictures. I like playing...Dec 8, 2016 | Blog
Waiting for a baby in December in a little northern city, with snow falling and the neighborhood Christmas lights twinkling all but perhaps an hour or two of these short winter days, is kind of nice, actually. Well, if you are not the one nine months and four days...Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
That’s Watch! pray! watch! in Bach’s German from the cantata he wrote and that was first perfomed for the second Sunday in Advent in 1716. That year it was December 6. Three hundred years later I heard it in Chapel by The Lake in Juneau on Sunday Dec. 4. I...
