Jul 14, 2017 | Blog
Poet Maggie Smith writes that “the tall summer field is a keeper of secrets” in her poem Rasp, that arrived in my poem-a-day inbox yesterday. I haven’t meant to keep secrets from you- but I had to leave home suddenly on the 4th of July and was too...Jul 3, 2017 | Blog
I drop everything for house guests, and when they are family even more so and it’s been a full house for a few weeks now, what with the kids from Juneau and now my dad, Papa Bob, is here. There is also something about the days after Solstice that makes me feel...Jun 28, 2017 | Blog
Cycling back into town after an eventful spin along the muddy Chilkat River this morning all I smelled were roses and toast. The wild roses are doing much better with the cool gray weather than my geraniums, and when it is only 50 and nearly July, the campers in the...Jun 23, 2017 | Blog
It’s been busy, what with the kids from Juneau here, making six grandchildren in town at once. Babysitting at nap time is my duty, and seeing as how baby Molly often sleeps on my bed and I don’t want her to roll off, I have no choice but to catch up on...Jun 20, 2017 | Blog
I’ve been meaning to check in after the bike race. I’m fine! We actually had the best ride ever on stages 7 & 8 from the border into town, racing a Canadian friend and pedaling into the wind at an average of 20 mph. The road was dry and it was windy,...Jun 16, 2017 | Blog
The bike race is tomorrow and it is snowing at the summit and expected to snow again overnight with flurries during the day. It will be cold and nasty up there with a strong head wind — But, as Chip said, “Heath, you are one the toughest riders around,...
