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.
“So here are the reasons I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need the most.”—Camille Dungy Also, I am going to hear her...
You have helped raise just over 100,000 dollars for the Chilkat Valley Community Foundation Emergency Relief Fund. The grants will begin in about a week. I appreciate the donations in my name as a so-called Living Treasure, but honestly, you are solid gold. I would...
Well, all I can add to the horror of yesterday’s news, is that this is not going to be the dry January I had planned. I couldn’t watch CNN without a gin and tonic. I had also planned to take the tree down on Epiphany, but I couldn’t bear to lose...
The Chilkat Valley, and Haines and Klukwan are especially good places to be right now. Both have only had very low (to basically non-existent) Covid-19 cases, none currently, and we have already begun the vaccine roll out. All but two of us on the Sunday church Zoom...
Whenever someone reveals the story of their life, that ground on which they’re standing is holy ground. That’s common ground. We’re human, and we’ve got a story. If I listen to yours and you to mine, we won’t agree on a whole lot, but we will understand each other,...
At about 11:30 on Boxing Day there was a loud crash. Chip was washing dishes and I was talking on the phone to my sister and we all thought Papa Bob had fallen upstairs until Chip yelled “chickens!”- A hen had flown into the window and the flock was...
