Oct 26, 2010 | Blog
On October 26, 1918 the Princess Sophia sank on Vanderbilt Reef, between Haines and Juneau, killing 353 people, many leading citizens of the Yukon and Alaska. It is a tragedy that is hard to wrap your head around. Ken Coates and Bill Morrison have written about it in...Oct 26, 2010 | Blog
They put up bear warning signs on trailheads, so why not on telephone poles in town? There is more bear sign on townsite streets than area trails, and now there is a wounded, big brown bear in the bushes across the street from the school, who kept the children in at...Oct 25, 2010 | Blog
I can’t cut up meat and wrap it while I’m still on my first cup of coffee, but Chip can. He has been up for a few hours, and the kitchen looks like a butcher shop and smells like clean blood. The dogs are watching him nervously from the hall. They always...Oct 21, 2010 | Blog
There was frost on the car when I headed out to Morning Muscles at six and a nearly full moon. The Chilkat Center was packed with fit ladies. The talk afterwards was about the new toilets going in just down the hill at Portage Cove for cruise ship passengers....Oct 20, 2010 | Blog
You know how when wives, say, accidentally leave a coffee cup on the hood of the car at Mountain Market and drive off as it bounces in the mud, oblivious, and how husbands tend to make a lot of jokes about that? As if forgetting is something men never do? So what is...Oct 19, 2010 | Blog
I’ll be giving a talk in Juneau Friday night at UAS– here’s the scoop. (Thanks to my friend Katie at UAS…) 
