Jun 27, 2011 | Blog
Here, we catch most of our fish with a net. Chip and I were up early Sunday and skipped church to catch five sockeye. It was slow, but a lovely morning to be out on the water, and we did get plenty of fish for dinner this week. ...Jun 26, 2011 | Blog
It is the morning after a good wedding and our own 29th anniversary, so here’s a verse from Leah Furnas’s poem, The Longly-Weds Know – “That it isn’t about the Golden Anniversary at all, But about all the unremarkable years that Hallmark...Jun 24, 2011 | Blog
This morning on our bike ride my husband said that drafting is the cycling equivalent of spooning. “It’s so comfortable you don’t want to leave.” That was what I was thinking when he woke me up at five to ride. But I know what he means. I think...Jun 23, 2011 | Blog
Of course my camera battery was dead, so you can’t see we women of Morning Muscles class all stretching and bending on our yoga mats in a circle in the sun at the end of the cruise ship dock. ( I was pretty proud of myself for remembering the camera and waking...Jun 21, 2011 | Blog
I have a busy day with two obituaries to write, and that always weighs a little heavy on my heart, as I think any passing of life should, but first I had to water the garden and let the chicks out into their run, and figured you may want to come along with me. It is a...Jun 19, 2011 | Blog
In honor of the 19th annual Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay, which a Lende family team ( and 1175 other cyclists from Alaska and the Yukon ) completed with flying colors yesterday: “Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the...
