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.

Anxiety, Challenges, Skills and FLOW

I wish I could draw here, but I can’t, so picture this: a graph with “Challenges” up the right side and “Skills” along the bottom, and a line at an angle that begins in the  lower corner where Challenges and Skills intersect and runs up...

Phew, bike race well done now onto a wedding.

Between the bike race weekend– setting up the finish line on Friday, packing up the bikes and gear and driving up to Haines Junction Yukon, racing all day Saturday, the clean up and gang at the house Sunday and then Father’s Day dinner– well, I have...

Haines’ New Telephone Pole Park

Construction continues at the waterfront on the new intersection of Fort Seward at  Portage Cove.  Our friends from AP&T have added a new attraction that dwarfs the big hammer on Main Street: What may be the largest municipal telephone pole in southeast Alaska...

Reality Televison Knocks on the Door

I have been asked to audition for a new Alaskan reality TV show made by the folks who bring you Pawn Stars, called Alaska Rivers (and the people who live on them.) Apparently the producers like this blog, and as you know we do live in a photogenic place populated by...

Sunday’s Thought

This is what I want my grandchildren to know: that every day they have a choice to wake up on the good side of the bed or the bad, with a smile or a frown, with a howl or a song. So here is a little tune from Oklahoma! that I have taught Caroline (3) to sing when she...