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.
“Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself, others by first do no harm or take no more than you need.What if the mightiest word is love?…In today’s sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun. On the brink, on the brim,...
“I believe that life is an extraordinary gift, a blink of bright light between vast darknesses. I believe that the fingerprints of the Maker are everywhere : children, hawks, water.” – Brian Doyle from Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies
Just about as soon as the Christmas Day party was cleaned up, we headed to Juneau to see the kids there, and my daughter Eliza, her dog Jeff, and the redheads came back to Haines with us, so we made sure we took a photo with all the grandchildren in it: Trouble is it...
I am up early, and it’s dark, and I was emailing a friend and sending her some photos, and I realized I should send some to you too– as a thank you. Yesterday by lunchtime I survived about a foot of fresh snow, a power outage while at the pool just as I...
On snow from Frederick Buechner: “It is snow to be shoveled; to make driving even worse than usual, snow to be joked about and cursed at, unless the child in you is entirely dead, it is snow too that can make the heart beat faster…it is snow that can...
Last night (well, afternoon in most places) at four the “bookies” as we call our book club, met at my house as snow was gently falling to discuss Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, which everyone loved (almost, one of us was not as sure) but then she...
