On Chappy: March 13

Each winter I try to cross a couple of items off my to-do list, while I have a bit more free time. This winter I put a sump pump in the basement and had a son.

There have been occasions this winter when I, too, have thought that I could see Russia from my perch on the bluff. Such is our Alaskan landscape. With the outer harbor frozen over as far as my eye has muscle, it appears that the ice is endless. Sometimes only the twinkling lights of Edgartown remind me at night that I am connected at all to a populous.