Barbara Allen

Chinese New Year Celebration in Stanwood

January 22, 2012
Chinese New Year Celebration in Stanwood

Year of the Rabbit Ends, Year of the Dragon Begins Monday, January 23rd by Barbara Allen Hoa and Sherri , owners of Stanwood’s Dragon Palace remind us that those who made New Year’s Resolutions on January 1, but failed to keep them, or wish they’d gotten more for Christmas, have a second chance with...
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Barbara Allen: Dark Passage – Night watch on the MV Columbia

January 2, 2012
Barbara Allen: Dark Passage – Night watch on the MV Columbia

Meditative Memories on New Year’s Eve and Day by Barbara Allen It was pitch black darkest night. No moon, stars, or lights on either side of the ship… just infinite black “velvet”. After the MV Columbia left Sitka and headed south… tired, I’d slept through a midnight stop at Petersburg in my cabin, then...
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Arctic natives’ subsistence holiday living and their loving lessons

December 21, 2011
Arctic natives’ subsistence holiday living and their loving lessons

by Barbara Allen The handmade sign on the roadside of the Haines Junction to Haines road offered bannock bread, hot tea, and native storytelling. In an act of courage, which included several devout prayers, I turned my almost 50 ft. long rig consisting of a Class A Motorhome and towed car, onto the unpromising...
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Barbara Allen: The Secret History of Christmas

December 14, 2011
Barbara Allen: The Secret History of Christmas

by Barbara Allen The midwinter celebration we call Christmas began millennia before the birth of Jesus and did not exist until three centuries after his death when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.  The earliest English reference to December 25th as Christmas Day was in 1043! There were, however, throughout the...
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