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.

Find the Good Tour Schedule

  It’s here! The Find the Good tour schedule for the spring tour is done- I will post it properly on my site too, but know some of you are planning your May and would like a head’s up. Also, the May 2nd Palmer, Alaska dinner with Fireside Books is ticketed...

Whatever

Can you tell I have the flu? “Whatever”? Honestly. I read an article about Ronald Reagan and dementia that said one researcher who studied Reagan’s word choices while he was in office  concluded that his growing use of vague nouns like...

Sunday’s Thought from Anne Lamott

I have the flu, I think. Achy, sore throat, nasty cough, sleepy. I came down with it right after an annual post-health fair check-up when I assured my new doctor that I never get sick, and that she will only see me about once a year, and always in April, as...

Wednesday Already?

The Mexican quintet Metales M5 (they were great, “fabulous” even as my friend Nancy would say) managed to fly out today in all this wind and rain. The little airline office at the airport was like a scene from a Marx Brothers movie when they arrived,...

Something Funny

Before church Easter Sunday I asked Ivy (almost three) if the Easter Bunny had come to her house, and she said, “No.” What no Easter Bunny?  “Santa Claus left us baskets of candy and presents and Jesus is going to hide eggs in the yard,” she...

Hail Festival Days

There is nothing like a sunny, snow-free, mild Easter to make a whole town smile. It is so nice to be out of the gloom of Lent and in to spring. I keep thinking about what the Dalai Lama said, that death is a change of clothes, and how Jesus would no doubt agree, and...