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.

Happy April

With thirteen-plus hours of daylight now, the sun was up when I went to the pool this morning at 6:30, and I think some of the regulars were out walking in the fresh air with all the thrushes and robins where it sounds like spring too– so the pool was kind of...

Right Brain, Left Brain, Duck Brain?

So, a few days ago while walking our dogs on the beach, they ran into a mucky pond and chased a pair of mallards who have arrived earlier it seems than ever, like spring has. It’s a good-new bad-news season. (Yes, no snow! Oh no! Why is it so mild?) We women...

Sunday’s Thought

“I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.”  — Garth Stein in The Art of Racing on the Rain.  

So Busy Taking Care of..

Children! Yesterday I had the brunettes- and I couldn’t find my camera, I apologize, but my life has been like that lately in that everything I’m looking for is under  a pile of something I should be doing, before I do what I am actually...

Some News

  I got the first hardcover of my new book in the mail yesterday from my editor at Algonquin Books– and it is thrilling to hold, but scary too. Remember that I was hit by a truck when my first book came out, and the memory of that haunts each launch, I’m...