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.

The Woman’s Day Choir Column

At choir practice last night Nancy said the Woman’s Day column on our choir was now on-line. So if you don’t have a subscription, here it is. (I prefer to read paper magazines when I’m in the bathtub, myself.) I couldn’t help noticing that the...

April Fooling

This morning something jammed in the KHNS radio automation system, so we heard last Friday’s April Fool’s Day stories. The one about a new Alaska reality show called “Green Necks” really had me going, all over again. The joke was that logger...

Namaste (The divine in you meets the divine in me today)

 So, I saw Lee as I was leaving the grocery store, and he said, “I thought of you today.” And I said thank you. I thought he had meant he thought of me today because it’s April 7, the sixth anniversary of the accident when I was run over by a truck....

Nicholas Galanin: a Name You Should Know

What with this website’s new splash, the paperback launch hoopla, a trip to Juneau to be the featured writer for the UAS Literary&Arts Journal Tidal Echoes , my agent’s praise of my novel manuscript, I’m a little overwhelmed. All this should...

Ellen’s Story

If you can’t get a subscription to the Chilkat Valley News, which I’d suggest, since a paper is best read in your hands and used later for fire starter or house breaking puppies, you may read the obituary I wrote (and Tom Morphet edited for brevity, it was...

Sunday’s Thought

 From the poem “Hardest to Love”, by Tina Johnson in the UAS Tidal Echoes Literary & Arts Journal 2011: I want to love best those things that are hardest to love, the cold rain no one welcomes or thanks.