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.

Off the Road, Finally.

I do apologize for not telling you all about our trip to Anchorage and back with the cross-country team. We left at 7am Thursday morning and made it to Glenallen by about 10:30pm where we spent the night, and then drove on down to Anchorage Friday, arriving about...

New Haines Blog

 My physical therapist, Dr. Marnie the Wonderful, has a new blog for this season’s Well & Fit Community Challenge, a great class she facilitates at Community Ed for anyone wishing to be healthier in mind, body, and spirit. (At least that’s what I see...

Community Matters: Vote.

Yesterday I took Caroline to lap-sit story hour at the library. There were 17 babies between 6 months to three years old there, along with their parents and grandparents. It was crowded and happy and diverse– all the best things about this community. This was...

On The Road Again

We are off at dawn to Anchorage with the cross country team. The good news is that we aren’t taking the Dalton Trail, we are driving in the school van, and Gary put the studs on. I’ll let you know how we do Monday. Now I have to make a thermos of coffee...

The Power of Positive Talking

Here is how coaches survive traveling with fifteen teenagers– the kind of travel that includes sleeping on the floor in school gyms and classrooms for three nights out of every seven for five weeks in a row– when you unfold from a sleepless night under a...

A Hospice Lesson

 When I dropped off my salads for the Hospice of Haines volunteer training Wednesday evening, (the board makes meals for the trainees) organizers Beth and Liz were counting chairs and looking around for more. Beth said they’d need 18. It was a record turnout. (...