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.

Kluane to Chilkat Here We Come

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...

Food for Thought

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...

Ships and Shops

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...

Positively Enlightening

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...

I’m Home!

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...