Jun 17, 2011 | Blog
Lyndsey brought her bird Gus for dinner last night. He’s a wild bird, and none of us could say for sure what kind, even with the Sibley’s bird book, because he ( I suspect she, actually, because of the not very bright coloring) is still so young. Friends...Jun 16, 2011 | Blog
At Morning Muscles early this morning at the Chilkat Center (6-7) the ladies welcomed me back. I’d been gone a fair bit this spring, to Ketchikan, Skagway and then Homer. My friend Anne Marie, who travels a lot for her job, commiserated with me....Jun 14, 2011 | Blog
I was in a coffee shop cabin (it was made of logs, very small, maybe 10X12, with a lot of varnish, halogen lighting and a pretty barista behind a chrome and enamel espresso console that looked a restored car) anyway, there was a scruffy-ish pilot from one of the bear...Jun 11, 2011 | Blog
A poem from the keynote speaker here at the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, Rita Dove from her book On The Bus With Rosa Parks Dawn Revisted Imagine you wake up with a second chance: The blue jay hawks his pretty wares and the oak still stands, spreading...Jun 11, 2011 | Blog
So I am at Land’s End, a hotel at the end of the 4.5 mile Homer spit, attending the tenth annual Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, with a lot of heavy hitters. Fran Ulmer is here ( the female Alaska politician and thinker and doer we all admire) just as a...Jun 10, 2011 | Blog
At 5:30 AM, on our way to the airport, (I’m off to Homer), we were the only car on the narrow downtown Juneau street near the state capital building, when a man flagged us down. He wanted to know if he could ask us a few questions. He said he was a reporter from...
