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.

Sunday’s Thought

This Sunday’s thought comes from Anna Quindlen: “You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your life on the bus, or in the car, or at the computer. Not just the...

Angels Watch do Keep

While setting up for the Hospice of Haines spring rummage sale yesterday I noticed shelves of angels. A whole collection of porcelain, ceramic, and glass angels of all sizes and shapes, from the very ornate golden-winged and colored-gowned Victorians, to the naked,...

A Hooligan Walk

I said I’d tell you about Ketchikan and I will, but first I have to make some coffee and eat my oatmeal and get over to Sarah’s house to babysit Caroline. Fridays for the whole summer I am on Caroline duty while Sarah works at Lutak Lumber. I’ve been...

Rummage Sale Time

I’m back from Ketchikan, it took a little longer than I thought, but I had a great time. I’ll tell you all about it as soon as I get unpacked and walk the dogs. (Maybe not until tomorrow?) But first, much more important news about this weekend’s...

Hooligan Morning

It was a hooligan morning on the Chilkat side. The gulls woke us up at four a.m., calling out the open window. At Morning Muscles KC said that yesterday afternoon she took her daughter Sadie dip netting for the little fish, and was so grateful to live in such  a place...

Another Star is Born

 First we had White Fang, the movie that was filmed here twenty years ago, then last summer’s hit TV show, Gold Rush Alaska (and rumor has it the Discovery Channel film crew will be back soon) and now we have hairdresser Maggie Stern! (Really, the Haines...