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.

Papa Bob’s Most Excellent Alaskan Adventure

My Dad brought his wet suit to the cabin this weekend, and Sunday morning swam for forty minutes in Rutzebeck Lake and almost died of hypothermia. (He is training for the annual swim across the Hudson River in NY in July. It is warmer there.) JJ and Stoli had to lift...

Sky Diving? Is This Safe?

This morning as we cooled down from Morning Muscles, I said to Marnie, “He’s going sky diving with his girlfriend for her birthday, should I be worried?” Barbara overheard me, and said, “Is this Christian?” (My 21 year-old son.)...

Raining All Around

 I should have enjoyed sleeping in this morning, what with the steady, much needed, rain, and no need to bike in the wet, (the race is over so we can be fair weather riders) and no Morning Muscles class ( T Th Fri.) But it was a tosser and turner night, thinking about...

I’m Going to Broadway (In Skagway, that is.)

I’ll be in Skagway at the Skagway News Depot bookstore on historic Broadway, Monday June 28th from about 1:00- 6:00pm– all afternoon– I take the ferry over and back from Haines, my dad may come too, he’ll be visiting from New York, so stop by...

Bike Race Gender Lessons

One crazy man rode his leg of Saturday’s Kluane to Chilkat International Bike Relay wearing nothing on his bottom but a thong. Honest. And, Rosalee, who is newish in town and working at the paper some, rode the leg before mine on the Chilkat Valley News...

A Little Vacation

 I have house full  for the bike race and I’m riding on the newspaper team, so I’m talking a vacation from the computer this weekend. To learn more about the new book, read the Capital City Weekly and the Juneau Empire. (I haven’t yet, but I’ve...