Jan 26, 2012 | Blog
My daughter JJ is back home for the semester student teaching in the Haines kindergarten before she receives her degree in May. She calls us “the three best friends.” We have been snowshoeing or walking after she gets out each day. Yesterday we...Jan 25, 2012 | Blog
(There is a house in there…) What’s a person to do but enjoy it? Jan 24, 2012 | Blog
Here is the difference between November and January: In November when it snows a foot we cancel 6am Morning Muscles class. In January, we look out the window, pull on our boots and coats, take a fifteen minute warm-up thanks to the fresh snow to get the car out or...Jan 23, 2012 | Blog
The Haines Borough has been posting updates on the ground motion issues on the Lutak Road hill on the borough website. It is the best source of information on this developing Haines story. Jan 23, 2012 | Blog
Okay, so that is not news. It was pretty funny though, when the sun rose yesterday and we once again couldn’t see the chicken coop. Then my neighbor Betty called to tell me it was waist deep at her house. “I give you permission to skip church,” she...Jan 21, 2012 | Blog
From Unless it Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing, by Roger Rosenblatt: “Everything contains significance. But some significances are more equal than others. The writers whom we agree are the great ones only deal in matters of proved importance....