Nov 22, 2009 | Blog
An email from my wandering son, the first in weeks mind you: Hey mom, all is good. I went sky diving today, pretty sweet jumping out of a plane at 12000 feet, not much else is new. I’m heading back to Dunedin soon to get back to the surf. Hope everything is...Nov 20, 2009 | Blog
“It smells really good in here” my daughter Eliza said coming in the door from her day teaching. We have been home for ten days alone– my husband has been deer hunting, my other Haines daughter and her husband have been in Mexico, the two younger...Nov 18, 2009 | Blog
I am supposed to be writing a new Dispatch column, but my head is still in this novel I’m finishing a draft of and I’m finding it hard to shift gears. (I love saying that, “this novel I’m writing.” It sounds so crazy.) Also, it is 19...Nov 17, 2009 | Blog
I woke up at five fifteen, looked out the window at the snow, pulled on snow pants, boots and a coat over my pajamas, turned the coffee on and went outside in the white dark and shoveled my way to the car and then swept the snow off, started it, and scraped and...Nov 16, 2009 | Blog
I Think I will I need to breathe some, before I comment on Oprah and the W.I.W.N.N. I will say that we had a nice turn out for the show, although the dogs seemed to be in charge, and at one point there may have even been more dogs than people. That’s when I put...Nov 14, 2009 | Blog
I was at Olerud’s store, not too long ago, checking out with a shopping cart full of groceries, when a friend holding a red pepper and bunch of cilantro looked at it and said I could save a lot of money at Costco. (In Juneau) I said “But I want Candy to...
