Sep 22, 2010 | Blog
Help me get the word out about an Alaskan bar owner (and the de facto poet laureate of Haines) who has written some great country songs inspired by Dr. Phil. Our own Christy Tengs Fowler needs a break, and someone who could get her tunes to Dr. Phil himself. Read her...Sep 21, 2010 | Blog
On Sunday afternoon coach Liam Cassidy and I took the Haines High cross-country team to the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, and even these Alaskan kids were wowed by its rough beauty and force. The weather helped, (we were in summer clothes) so did a pretty girl in...Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
That’s the decal Lexie gave to Kendra Knight at the baby shower last night. It’s for the wall over her soon to be Baby Boy Knight’s crib. How sweet is that? Kendra’s mother, Frankie, told the women assembled that when the baby comes, we will...Sep 16, 2010 | Blog
Today is my oldest daughter Eliza’s birthday, she is 27 and teaching fourth grade in Juneau. It is hard to believe it is already 60 degrees and sunny at 10 am. On a few September sixteens we have had a thin layer of ice on the puddles in the morning .(And just...Sep 15, 2010 | Blog
My first column For Woman’s Day will run in November, and it is a bit of an introduction to Haines. Yesterday a magazine fact checker inquired about my population number, “About 2200, but I don’t think everyone has ever been home at the same...Sep 14, 2010 | Blog
“I never need water,” Terry Tempest Williams said, apologizing, coughing, and reaching for the water bottle handed to her by an event organizer. The white haired author of one of my favorite books, Refuge, among many others, was getting ill just talking...
