Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all of you from Cathy and I – to the friends we see often, the friends we haven’t seen in a while, and the friends we haven’t met yet. May you all experience the peace and love that we’ve been blessed with....
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Going to Skagway for the mail
My normal mail pickup is just a short walk to the tiny historic post office in Carcross. For several years now, though, I’ve also had a PO box in Skagway, Alaska. The justification for driving 67 miles one-way to pick up some of my mail is easy – I...
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The longest night & the snowiest Winter
Today is the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year. The sun in Whitehorse will only be above the horizon (if there were no mountains) for 5 hours, 38 minutes. With this very warm weather, though, come clouds, so it’s even darker. With the clouds, snow has arrived...
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The drive home: commuting from Whitehorse to Carcross
I suppose commuting is one of those things that the average person in North America just has to tolerate in order to make a decent living. For a while yet, driving beween Carcross and Whitehorse is part of my life for that reason – Whitehorse is where an important...
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Governments and room-temperature IQs
There is an article in today’s Anchorage Daily News that makes me both sad and angry. There are 3,800 soldiers returning to Fairbanks from Iraq – 26 of their fellow Fairbanks residents returned from this single unit Iraq posting in body bags. That’s 26 people from a town not...
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