Jan 20, 2010 | Blog
Lucy said that all you have to do to get a baby to sleep is put them in the hat rack on your plane and fly to 5,000 feet. She said the same thing works for ornery drunks, although they sometimes have to go higher. “The blood oxygen level drops” with...Jan 19, 2010 | Blog
Light snow covered the car this morning as Eliza left for Morning Muscles class at 5:45. The snow banks in the driveway are like walls, taller than the car roof, and the road was white. The lights of the airport twinkled up the river. We didn’t see another...Jan 18, 2010 | Blog
As I watched a TV news clip of the Navy hospital ship Comfort cruising to Haiti to help with the relief effort, my first thought was that the cruise lines (that also frequent Alaska in the summer) should send a ship (or three) to help house the injured and provide...Jan 18, 2010 | Blog
Today I am housekeeping, answering mail, and getting organized. (The Christmas lights really should come off the porch.) But I wanted you to know that the Alaska Dispatch column about the baby’s birth is up (apparently the column is now posted late Sunday for...Jan 16, 2010 | Blog
They call the new obstetric wing of the Bartlett hospital “Bartlett Beginnings”. The birthing rooms are the kind I had hoped to have when I was injured and in a nursing home. They are big and airy with wood floors and a tall wall of windows. But the best...Jan 15, 2010 | Blog
Caroline Cooper Elliott arrived at 10:32 am at Bartlett Regional Hospital. She weighs 7lbs. 13oz. and has big blue eyes, long arms and legs and an animated face. She watches everything. She is so good natured her mom, who is doing great too, said she may call her...
