Apr 30, 2011 | Blog
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...Apr 30, 2011 | Blog
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,...Apr 29, 2011 | Blog
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...Apr 28, 2011 | Blog
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...Apr 26, 2011 | Blog
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...Apr 25, 2011 | Blog
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...