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 Thought

Today is All Saint’s Day, and here’s the Sunday thought from the back of our church bulletin:   Let us not tire of denouncing the idolatry of wealth, which makes human greatness consist in having and forgets that true greatness is being. One’s value...

Man in a Tree

Friday afternoon on Main Street: Pizza climbed a cottonwood tree in a chicken suit, as part of a YouTube video he’s making, and the editor of the Chilkat Valley News took his picture. One on-looker wondered if this was art, which Joe says it is, another said...

Changing Weather

 It’s hard to believe that there’s a winter storm watch for 4-9 inches of snow by tomorrow at noon, but that’s what the weatherman says. It’s 40 degrees and windy wet at the moment. My pansies are still half-blooming. The grass is green....

Not Really News, But Some Things You Should Know.

 It didn’t snow last night, in town anyway, but the mountains are thick with it and it is raining, as my husband says “to beat the band.” Speaking of bands, Debra Schnabel is hoping to revive the band that played for South Pacific, and is calling the...

Chilkat Valley Election Results

The election is over, sort of, it will take a few weeks to read all the names on the write-ins to make sure they are indeed for Lisa Murkowski, who is probably the winner in the Alaska senate race, and Governor Parnell also is back, as is the man my favorite morning...

Vote Today, and Remind Three Friends to.

 Last night we had 13 robo-calls. Chip and I ate dinner and listened as the answering machine recorded them. The President of the United States called, and so did Joe Miller, Scott McAdams and even crazy Michelle Bachman. Mike Huckabee called from Arkansas and asked...