Dec 27, 2010 | Blog
In the traditional calendar, today is only the the second day of Christmas. But even die-hard church folks know that the holiday began about a month ago, on Thanksgiving weekend. And here where it is so dark, who isn’t cheered by a string of bright lights on the...Dec 26, 2010 | Blog
From Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales: One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear the moment before sleep, that I can...Dec 23, 2010 | Blog
Read all about this week’s entertainment– the puppet show, party & more– at the Alaska Dispatch. Here’s my Christmas letter from Haines.Dec 22, 2010 | Blog
This is a first for me, and it took a little figuring, but I believe I have learned how to post photos. So, here then are a few post cards of skating on Chilkoot Lake. My hands froze quickly as soon as the mittens were off, and the skating was so nice that I...Dec 22, 2010 | Blog
JJ is in the kitchen talking to Chip and his friend John, who has arrived for his decaf because it is too dark to start working yet. She’s dressed for a run with Chandler, who is on the Cornell cross country team. He’ll be here any minute. JJ tells John...Dec 22, 2010 | Blog
The north wind is shaking the house and the children (can you still call them that when the youngest is 20?) are nestled all snug in their beds, or whichever bed they can find. (They went to sleep early last night after being out at the bonfire on the lake late for...
