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.

Sunday’s Thought from Mary Oliver

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself  to your imagination, calls to you like wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things. -From Mary Oliver’s poem, Wild Geese        

Punctual Snow

Last night at choir practice we talked about the spring weather, of course we know it won’t stay, but what if it did? We also worried a loud that if November was so fierce that the other bookend of winter, March, could be too. We sang our new favorite song, New...

Another Spring Day? Happy Thursday!

  When it snowed again last night I groaned, but it didn’t  amount to anything, and it sure feels like spring this morning, with a warm breeze, a setting crescent moon, and dawn’s light at seven. JJ and I walked home from Morning Muscles and we were...

February Woman’s Day Column, a Heart Healthy Valentine

Happy Valentine’s Day– and since this is women’s heart month, I thought you might like my February Woman’s Day Valentine to physical therapist Marnie Hartman and the Haines Morning Muscles women. (She put us through our paces this morning. )...

Happy Birthday Sarah

It is hard to believe to that my second baby is 27 today– and that she will be having her second baby in May.  When each of my children were born my mother traveled to Alaska from New York to help me for two weeks. Sarah was due January 27 and she arrived Feb....