Oct 3, 2016 | Blog
Today’s to-do list: 9:15 Walk Pearl 10:30 Chat with the Alaska Broadcaster’s Association about my keynote speech to them Nov. 10 11:00 Bring the fuchsias and geraniums in for the winter and if there is time cut back the dahlias. There could be a frost...Oct 2, 2016 | Blog
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of...Sep 30, 2016 | Blog
The North really showed off for the visit of the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge and the little prince and princess– both day and night with sunny skies, golden leaves, and wild northern lights. It’s hard to believe they were so close– Whitehorse and...Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
There’s a great line in Anne Tyler’s novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, in which one of the characters, Red, a builder and now grandfather, declares that caller ID is like cheating– It seems to me, he says, that you should have to pick up the phone and...Sep 26, 2016 | Blog
It’s a kind of Goldilocks morning, what with Mama Bear and Baby Bear taking turns with which bed (of grass, in the back yard anyway) was the most comfortable last night. Fortunately Papa Bear was not around. I have heard that dogs read the “news”...Sep 25, 2016 | Blog
“One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it...
