Mar 1, 2010 | Blog
Chip and I were walking the other day, and he said I shouldn’t wear mittens. His Tlingit hunting friend John says that you can stay outside in the cold longer if you learn not to need them. I have an artist friend who told me not wear glasses for the same...Feb 27, 2010 | Blog
Here is a good article from the Anchorage Daily News. They say Haines will probably be fine, but that weird currents from the tsunamis can be dangerous, and it is not a good afternoon to be in a kayak or skiff, so be careful. As for me, Chip and I walked down to the...Feb 27, 2010 | Blog
My neighbor Betty didn’t call early this morning when her weather radio tsunami warning alarm went off, since it didn’t sound like we would get one, at least not right away, and she knows I like to sleep until seven on Saturdays and then listen to...Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday at lunchtime coyotes ran through the neighborhood. My husband saw one standing in a driveway on Cemetery Hill and the pack run down by River Road. Be careful with pets. I didn’t see the coyotes because I was on the ferry. All day. I had been in Juneau...Feb 25, 2010 | Blog
The first pre-publication review for Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs is in, from Kirkus Reviews. And… drum roll please… “Wife, mother of five and a winsome reporter on people old and young, including dear friends, stalwart citizens and...Feb 22, 2010 | Blog
Paul and Annie said it must have been 50 degrees on top of Mt. Ripinsky Saturday, and Dr. Feldman said he walked all the way to Pyramid Island without getting water in his boots Sunday. (We walked almost to the airport the day before with the dogs.)The tide was out...