for Amber, our own Auntie Leila --- who brings domesticity everywhere she goes

"... to be fair, some cocktails contain fruit."

and Alaska in the news!

Tonight we're joining the viewers of Yukon Men and having friends over for pizza.

This morning eighty pounds of school supplies arrived with the mailman, Ray, who kept apologizing that his bum knee meant he couldn't lug the boxes up our steps. The 1982 song 'Gloria' was blasting from his USPS jeep. I still want to write a book about the history of mail delivery in our great state, but if there's one barometer of my mania, it's the planning! of all the projects! Fall is the perfect time to settle in to the real (sometimes stifling) challenge of home's own rhythms.