Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
It is really bad form to complain that Florida was a little on the cold side when it’s minus one and blowing fifty in Haines. (Here we northerners are shell-combing on an empty Gulf beach on a blustery day when the locals wore down coats and wool hats as they...Jan 7, 2013 | Blog
I am doing something wrong and unethical and maybe illegal– but totally by accident, I might add. While Chip and his mom watch the Notre Dame game (his cousin taught there, so they are our team today), I am in the dining room, all set up to keep my New...Jan 4, 2013 | Blog
There’s that moment each year when you write the new date on a thank-you note or a check and can’t quite believe it: 1-3-13. 2013? Really? I need to take down my December calendars too. The tree is already gone and the living room seems so much bigger and...Dec 31, 2012 | Blog
Here are two things I’m not going to do in 2013 (or ever): The Polar Bear swim at the Port Chilkoot Beach Jan. 1 (call Greg Podsiki for details) and para-glide off Mt. Ripinsky like the fellow my friends saw the other day sailing down over their heads holding...Dec 30, 2012 | Blog
All Advent we sang, “O come, O come Emmanuel”. Emmanuel, another word for Jesus, means God with us. Why is this old story of the baby in a manger, shepherds, kings and a bright star still told? How does it all relate to our lives now? Another very old...Dec 28, 2012 | Blog
My neighbor sent a text my way the other night saying she would drive to Morning Muscles, and when I thumbed back to her that we didn’t have exercise class until January 3rd, I could hear her groan through the trees, the driveway snow berms, and the walls of...
