Dec 7, 2010 | Blog
I like this guide because it includes one of my books, shameless, I know. But it is extensive, and may help your holiday shopping. Please buy them at your local independent bookstore. This season, support Main Street first. If you’d like a personalized copy of...Dec 7, 2010 | Blog
No doubt you were wondering why I haven’t mentioned the Lighting of the Library. That’s because my new column about it is in the Alaska Dispatch. The weekly column about small-town Alaskan life is back. Read it here. (My guess is it will run each Tuesday,...Dec 6, 2010 | Blog
The first episode of ten in the first TV series to be filmed in Haines wasn’t as bad as we had expected. Haines looked good, and the only local guy in it, truck driver Donny Braaten, represented us well. Last summer the Discovery Channel filmed the Hoffman...Dec 4, 2010 | Blog
So much to tell you about next week– watching Gold Rush Alaska with friends and the Lighting of the Fort in the worst weather ever. The choir sang outside, knee deep in snow amidst torrential slush. But first, a little day of rest from my desk for me, and...Dec 3, 2010 | Blog
Susie was on the radio yesterday afternoon, in full Texas twang. She’s from Philadelphia but her heart is in Texas, or was, it is in Alaska now, where she noted as she read the weather forecast, that what we lack in length of daylight we make up for in...Dec 2, 2010 | Blog
Pizza Joe’s lovely wife Holly Jo and a friend made this short video for YouTube that shows the Haines Snow Dragon being put together in the Elks Lodge before the parade a couple years ago, and me and Pizza Joe (he’s the head of the dragon, I was the smoke...
