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.
I took my chances and flew to Juneau for a long weekend. ( ‘What’s a week-end?’ for me it was Weds evening – Sun afternoon.) I just wanted to see the kids and waiting for the perfect time these still-Covid but back to school days, means never...
I’m looking forward to this event with terrific poets Pattiann Rogers and Laura Kolbe next Friday– mark it on your calendar. Laura Kolbe is a doctor and medical ethicist in New York whose book Little Pharma is one of the most anticipated publications of...
I’m preparing for a busy fall, with Alaska Quarterly Review events (2 Fridays a month until April), a Zoom Find the Good meeting with the Kodiak library tonight, and Anchorage and Juneau November 3-8. If your group, library, school would like a Zoom (or real)...
October sunshine and fresh snow is especially welcome following the storm last weekend. Five inches of rain in 48 hours and gales raking the beach, the trees, the house. On the radar it looked like a hurricane, and in the middle of Saturday the eye passed over, and...
September 11 was Chip’s birthday, and it is always a little odd, both remembering and celebrating. Still, one thing I choose to hold onto about the terrorist attacks twenty years ago, is that everyone who was trapped in the towers or the Pentagon or on the plane...
September is busting out all over. The good news is the bears are feeding on salmon in the river and look fat and happy, and that other hungry bear has not returned to the cabin, but Trixie still won’t come inside. Also, we have had no Covid updates since last...
