Jul 25, 2018 | Blog
It’s hot and hazy and the beach peas are crunchy underfoot from lack of rain. There is a burn ban, so no campfires.The sprinkler is on in the garden. Windows are open and the fan is on upstairs. I feel bad enough for the wilted crows in their black feathered...Jul 20, 2018 | Blog
I can’t believe it’s a month since I checked in. I’m fine. No one is hurt or ill or in some crisis. I apologize if I worried you.Time really does fly when you are having fun– right out the open windows– and it is not like a boomerang,...Jun 19, 2018 | Blog
The bike race was hard and long, thanks to wicked headwinds. 30 knots or more, with gusts high enough to blow an outhouse over. (No, I wasn’t in it. No one was– thank goodness.) The Canadian highway forecast for Haines Junction to Pleasant Camp the morning...Jun 13, 2018 | Blog
Busy? Everything happens all at once it seems: the annual Haines Borough budget (we passed it last night, phew), ramped up business for our lumberyard and every shop and eatery in town, cruise ships, tourists, fishing season (salmon gillnetting opens Sunday), Little...Jun 8, 2018 | Blog
Yesterday morning at about 5:30 I talked to NPR’s Here & Now about an obituary making headlines. You would have laughed to see me with the cell phone in one hand, the landline in the other, wearing pajamas, sitting on the bed in the kids’ playroom...Jun 4, 2018 | Blog
“We all mess up. We all see through blinders. We all say hurtful things. We all nurture prejudices we don’t recognize in ourselves. Even a full-throated apology won’t erase a colossal mistake. We will never make ourselves perfect. But we can try to make...
