Jun 8, 2013 | Blog
As Mary Oliver says, this is why I wake early– an early summer morning with a good dog to share it with is the preacher there ever was. Jun 7, 2013 | Blog
A week from today we’ll be driving up to Haines Junction, Yukon to camp overnight before joining about a thousand other cyclists in a race to Haines. The Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay is a about 160 miles long and may be done solo or in 2,4 & 8...Jun 6, 2013 | Blog
Food for thought: last night at the Fireweed (it was very busy, with a wait for tables) the special was a delicious shrimp curry. Our crowd (Chip and I, our son, daughter & husband, and delightful baby Lani– not to mention another daughter who works...Jun 5, 2013 | Blog
There was a really big ship in town yesterday– so large it made the hefty Port Chilkoot Dock look like a toy. It seemed as if the ship could pull the dock away with it. From one angle just about all of Mt. Riley was blocked. It was windy, kind of cool in...Jun 4, 2013 | Blog
At Shelly’s talk last night at the library I learned that it is a good thing to wear rose colored glasses, and that people who do, are happier, and that there is data to prove it, thanks to practitioners of the relatively new field of positive psychology. Shelly...Jun 3, 2013 | Blog
I am so sorry not to have told where I went and when I would return– I thought I’d be able to visit from Skagway and would check in after I arrived– but my motel did not have internet– And, like a delay from a canceled flight resulting in a...