Aug 29, 2012 | Blog
It is hard to complain about the first snow on the mountains when you wake up to this view. Honestly. It makes your heart kind of beat funny, especially when you are down on the beach in the scene, and looking up and out at it all. No wonder Thoreau said that in...Aug 28, 2012 | Blog
Today is primary election day and I will vote to bring back the state coastal zone management program. It worked for 30 years until our lawmakers let it run out. It seems to me that if the oil companies are out-spending the coastal mayors, fishermen, and concerned...Aug 27, 2012 | Blog
After popular fisherman and father of three daughters, Richard Boyce, slipped off his gillnetter and drowned on the 4th of July, his friends decided to do something positive and honor his memory by providing flotation devices in the form of inflatable suspenders for...Aug 26, 2012 | Blog
From poet Mary Oliver- “Oh Lord, how shining and festive is your gift to us, if we only look, and see.”Aug 24, 2012 | Blog
When a friend asked for volunteers to make dinners for Michael and the two little girls while his wife Melissa is in an Anchorage hospital, 800 miles away from Haines, on complete bed rest, until hopefully December, to keep a baby in her womb who apparently wants to...Aug 23, 2012 | Blog
Let’s just say there has been a lot of family time this week. We needed to get a tree stand up for moose hunting season, golf, berry pick, enjoy a few more sunny summer days at the beach, can some salmon, take a few walks, and spend some time rainy-day time...