Jan 14, 2019 | Blog
I went to Juneau for Epiphany ( Sunday January 5 we celebrate the arrival of the three wise men or Magi who followed the star to Bethlehem), and stayed on vacation for another week. On Epiphany at our church in Haines we have a little party with a cake, which has an...Jan 2, 2019 | Blog
He noticed this woman at the salad bar and she was standing perfectly still and her face was blue and so he Heimliched her and it didn’t work so he shook her upside down and out popped a green olive. The manager said their lunch was on him. I heard that this...Dec 31, 2018 | Blog
I have been writing acrostic poems for the kids — and they are a hit, except when I drop a letter from a name — at least I only missed two and they were in middle names, but one was Lende and spelling that wrong caused a lot of laughter. It is easier to...Dec 20, 2018 | Blog
The sunrise and sunsets have been in sync with the flow and ebb of the tides this week. My days are bookended by dog walks, and they are suddenly, it seems, too close together. The morning walk is done about 10:30 and the evening walk begins around 2:30. It ends in...Dec 13, 2018 | Blog
It’s finally snowing! It has been so rainy and inky dark that I missed my own driveway twice this week, and once, the turn off from Small Tracts to Mud Bay Road. (Luckily Greg has plenty of Christmas lights up so I turned around in his driveway.) The little...Dec 4, 2018 | Blog
I sent the draft manuscript off of book # 4 yesterday midday, and the plan was to clean my house and my desk, and I have sort of, dumping all my notes for the book in a big box to save them for the editing process in February and March, but I can’t do a...
