Nov 26, 2012 | Blog
Saturday night friends arrived with a niece who drove to Haines for the holiday and two of her friends and sort of co-workers, if that’s what troops are, from Anchorage. They were two young women and a young man– a blond Californian, a Malaysian immigrant...Nov 25, 2012 | Blog
“The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” –St. Paul Nov 24, 2012 | Blog
Nov 22, 2012 | Blog
I used to dread the big holiday columns for newspapers and magazines– Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter– I was always better with the lesser days, the days when the whole world wasn’t writing about the same subject, which is why I still miss my weekly...Nov 21, 2012 | Blog
Sitka challenger Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins got 32 more votes than Haines incumbent Bill Thomas, which means he is the winner for the Alaska house district 34 seat. For now. Last week both candidates said with it this close they’d ask for recounts. I hope Bill...Nov 21, 2012 | Blog
First, they are counting the last votes in the Thomas, Kreiss-Tomkins election this morning. I’ll let you know what happens. Also– today the ferry arrives at 11:30(there’s one tomorrow too), school is out at 2, the bank is serving pumpkin pie,...
