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.

January Blues

The Haines assembly did some great good the other night by supporting the pre-school and giving them another year in the old Human Resource Building where they have been for over thirty years, and the innovative plan to join forces with the Senior Center facility and...

Nice to be Home

We play this game at the Seattle airport: who ever sees someone we know first has to buy the other breakfast. It took Chip about ten minutes to win, and of course Nelle and Larry came over to our table and chatted and we all talked about our vacations. Then at the...

Adios! (For a few weeks…)

Chip and I are off to a quiet little town in Mexico today and I should be back at my desk in about three weeks. There will be sketchy internet where we are going, but I am choosing to ignore it and the only tablet I’m bringing has paper pages and requires a pen...

Sunday’s Thought

This is a thought I stole from the back page of the new Hospice of Haines newsletter, and is a favorite quote of my friend Beth, the HOH director. I think it is a very good one to begin 2016 with. Reverend Carolyn Colbert says: “I have this notion that we live...

Monday’s Thought

I kind of missed Sunday’s Thought. (I am feeling like the mouse who was not stirring in Madeleine’s Christmas, because ‘like everyone else in that house which was old, the mouse was in bed with a terrible cold’.) Luckily it didn’t come on...