Jan 6, 2015 | Blog
The wind must have shifted just enough last night to keep the whole town up. Pearl was pacing all night long. It sounds like thunder and feels like an earthquake to her. Naturally, she’s in deep dreamland now. On the way to Morning Muscles lawn chairs skittered...Jan 5, 2015 | Blog
Listening to the forecast is humbling. It’s supposed to stay this windy (50 mph or so) and pretty cold (warmer, like 18) until Friday. They are playing hockey at the rink and the ice is good on Rutzebeck Lake. (But be careful, as always.) The ski club has set...Jan 4, 2015 | Blog
“In skating over thin ice, safety is our speed.” Ralph Waldo Emerson. I thought of that line today, when Chip insisted the ice on the pond was thick enough, mostly, but may be a little thin at one end of the lake. He reminded me that two inches of ice...Jan 2, 2015 | Blog
Last night, over black-eyed peas, greens, and corn bread– New Year’s good luck food, we five women friends talked about faith, spirits, and a clairvoyant some of us had visited when she came to Haines a few years ago. (Our spouses watched the football...Jan 2, 2015 | Blog
We are almost back to normal. With Christmas and New Year’s falling on Thursdays the last two weeks have been kind of manic– on and off again– celebrate and get to it– and today we are sort of on again– it is a work day before one final...Dec 31, 2014 | Blog
Yesterday, after a morning walk up to Lily Lake with old friends and young dogs, I did the afternoon sort-of-country show on KHNS. ( Think Willie Nelson meets James Taylor) and I played “Stand Right By Each Other,” a song from a gift from Chip,Lucinda...
