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.

Snowy Scenes of an Epic Alaskan Winter

 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...

On the Bright Side

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...

Ground Moving Updates

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. 

More Snow!

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...

Sunday’s Thought from Roger Rosenblatt

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....