Nov 8, 2012 | Blog
I am so glad that I don’t have to keep checking the web, listening to the radio and clicking back and forth between opposing news channels on the TV anymore– the election sucked my time like a black hole. It also made me very anxious for what turns out...Nov 6, 2012 | Blog
My husband’s hunting buddy called this morning, just like he does every morning, and he asked how the weather was over here on Mud Bay where all the hippies live, and I said lovely. The sun is out, it is a new day dawning, full of hope and change. (It is...Nov 5, 2012 | Blog
This morning my husband is pretending to make microphone noises like a rapper. “How do I sound?” He says. He has been packing for his annual deer hunt, and yesterday was making sounds he said were like a doe, and since I hadn’t had my coffee yet I...Nov 4, 2012 | Blog
“Guide the people of this land, and of all the nations, in the ways of justice and peace, that we may honor one another and serve the common good. Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.”– From the Book of Common Prayer Nov 1, 2012 | Blog
Today is All Saints Day, and tomorrow is All Souls. This is when, our priest Jan says, the time of year when heaven is closest to earth, which makes thinking about all those souls swirling around a lot less scary. Actually, it is kind of comforting, especially this...Oct 30, 2012 | Blog
Well, we got through Ted Lynch’s memorial service, but it was hard on the 400 or so folks packed into the Chilkat Center. Who didn’t weep at the music– that Hawaiian version of Over the Rainbow and Wonderful World combined with all those slides of Ted, a...