Jul 9, 2011 | Blog
I am in Anchorage, at the summer residency for UAA’s MFA in creative writing program. I am here as a student. Tonight we saw a film featuring John Haines (no relation to Haines, AK.) , Alaska’s most respected writer who died last winter. Here is what he...Jul 8, 2011 | Blog
I can’t figure out how summer gets so busy (in a good kind of way.) Is it really July already? Papa Bob is still here, and my daughter is up from Juneau, so we are riding bikes at the crack of dawn each day, after watching the Tour de France live at 5am, and...Jul 6, 2011 | Blog
Last night at dinner Papa Bob, his lady friend, and my son debated the thrills of bungee jumping versus sky diving. Has Papa Bob been bungee jumping too? He didn’t tell me this. (He will be 79 in September.)Before I could ask, he said he hadn’t, but he...Jul 3, 2011 | Blog
From Look and See a poem by Mary Oliver: “Oh Lord, how shining and festive is your gift to us, if we only look, and see.” Jul 2, 2011 | Blog
I probably shouldn’t have breakfast this morning since I’ll be eating Fireman Al’s Texas barbecue for lunch with everyone else in town down at the firehall. It’s the Haines Volunteer Fire Department’s annual fundraiser. Before that...Jun 30, 2011 | Blog
I spent yesterday afternoon at community radio station KHNS pitching for the annual fundraiser. The goal this year is 55,000 and we reached somewhere around 40,000 during the show (math is not my strength) and had a lot fun talking about the radio and the community...
