Jul 30, 2013 | Blog
This weather just has me all sun drunk– it is crazy, and beautiful, and as Mary Jean just said on the phone (she had dialed my number by mistake, but we had a nice chat anyway), it even smells like summer used to when she was a kid in San Diego– the sand,...Jul 25, 2013 | Blog
Jul 23, 2013 | Blog
It’s Southeast Alaska State Fair time and Hospice Desserts to Die For booth time. You know what they say, when it rains it pours? So of course the berries need picking, the garden has exploded, the sockeye are running, the days are shrinking, the dogs are...Jul 22, 2013 | Blog
You may know that my daughter Stoli is expecting in mid September, but her first baby was born quite healthy on her own time, about two weeks early, so we think this one might be early. She’ll be leaving for Sitka to stay closer to the hospital on August 12. I...Jul 18, 2013 | Blog
I have read that when you walk the dogs and they do all that stopping and sniffing it is their way of reading the news. The dogs and I (we still have the grand dog Annie, the honeymooners return to pick her up this weekend) have been walking down the beach and up and...Jul 11, 2013 | Blog
At least for one week. As I typed my way toward the end of that new book deadline, I got an unexpected boost yesterday when I learned that If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name, my first book, made the New York Times Bestseller List for July 21st in ebooks....