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.

Memorial for Richard Boyce set for July 12

The Boyce family has scheduled a memorial & potluck for Richard at the Ft. Seward Parade Grounds next Thursday (July 12) beginning at 4 PM. Bring a dish to share and a story to tell after the eulogy. They have scheduled the event after the weekly gillnet opening...

Finding the Good in a Fisherman’s Death

Richard Boyce’s friends and fellow fisherman Jim Syzmanski and his wife Randa aim to buy new inflatable suspenders for the rubber bib overalls of every fisherman in the Haines fleet. Jim told me yesterday at the cannery picnic that some good  must come of...

Goodbye to Richard

There was a woman riding a recumbent bike down the road this morning at about 6 mile, and Chip slowed to talk with her just before fisherman Richard Boyce’s place. Chip doesn’t usually slow down, much less stop when we’re riding, and he is never a...

Technical Difficulties

Yes, I will blog again, but it may take a day or two until I can write more than a few lines. I am having some trouble with my computer. The battery and power cord aren’t working properly. (I am at 20% right now.) Bad sign. The good news is that I got the draft...

Summer Day Postcard

 Last night I asked Chip if he had planned anything big, you know, like a trip to Italy for our 30th anniversary today. Then I looked up the gift for 30 years of marriage, so he could have a head’s up. Imagine the grin when I read that this is the pearl...

Sunday’s Thought

From Mary Oliver’s poem  When Death Comes,  ” I don’t want to end up simply visiting this world.”