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… I do wish when the tell me how good I look after not seeing me for a long time that they just wouldn’t sound so shocked.

Today marks the 37th year since I arrived in Alaska. It’s been one wild and wooly ride so far.

I was sitting in my chair last evening watching the news with my headset on to block out the noise my parrots make in the evening. Through the melodic sound of the newscasters’ voices, I kept hearing a rhythmic banging.  I kept shaking my head thinking there was a problem with the headset. Then I started fiddling with the tuning button on the side of the earpiece thinking I was picking up some construction noise. When nothing stopped it, I took the headsets off and got up to see where the noise might be coming from if it wasn’t from

Don’t you get the feeling that at some point the people of Germany are going to get a little tired of Americans who oppose any health care reform calling the other side Nazis? I mean, Nazis were like the evilest group in pretty much all of recorded history. And comparing some long winded politicians to them is just… well absurd and ludicrous come to mind.  Isn’t it bad enough that the German people must bear the burden of having actually produced this vile regime? Do they now have to share it with American politicians? I mean, the only two people

Back from Barrow. Funeral is a sad reason to go there. But while there they landed four whales and I got to have unaliq and watch all that was going on as a snow squall blew and then disappeared almost as fast as the whales did under the skillful hands of the whalers.  Made me realize how much I missed it.

I have lived through many autumns in the northeastern part of this country and they are beautiful. But autumn in Anchorage is amazing. Before the snow and after the bugs, with golden leaves shimmering in the breeze. It takes my breath away… and not just because the temp is below forty degrees.

Today I give a eulogy for Deborah Lyn, one of the best people it has ever been my privilege to know. I will miss her.

Remember during the Vietnam war how we kept getting those body counts from the military after each battlle as though if we finally had a large enough count of dead bodies we could declare victory?  Am I the only one getting the same feeling out of the numbers now being released by the government about how many Taliban we kill each day?

This year is Barbie’s fiftieth anniversary. Talk about a role model!  As a girl, I assumed that when I developed breasts, I would also develop a 10-inch waist to match. Didn’t happen. At fifty, her breasts remain upright and perky while mine started heading south two minutes after I hit the half century mark.

I was never a doll girl.  My mother tried. She bought me all kinds of dolls. We found them moldy and rotting in the back room of our old store when mom died. Some had heads. Some didn’t. Some had odd pieces of clothing clinging to

$63,000 and some change. That’s apparently the going rate for dinner with our lovely gal, temporary Sal. Wow!

I found myself wondering whom I would pay $63,000 to have dinner with and realized that the list was extremely limited even if, in my daydream, I allowed myself to have millions and millions in disposable income. I found myself thinking that maybe if Todd served dinner in little tighty-whiteys I might consider putting out maybe $5000 just because he’s kind of hot in a very Alaskan dorky way.  But $63,000 – even if Sarah was serving it in her tighty-whiteys it