It isn’t easy to gauge how many, but high demand has made conditions right for some longtime early childhood workers to quit their jobs and work on their own.
For the NEIGHBORS project, I took a look at how the pandemic changed downtown through the eyes of two downtown ambassadors, charged with waking people sleeping on the street in the mornings.
There’s still a risk, but seniors are flooding back to Anchorage Senior Center
High school and middle school writers are invited to join me in two-day small group non-fiction writing workshops. Participation is limited and sign-up is required.
You could say our pantries reflect our collective state of mind and the state of the world. They also tell us how we’re recovering from the pandemic years.
For much of the past two years, a lot of us have been isolated from people we know, but also from the world of strangers, from small talk in line for coffee and smiles in the grocery store, and the sense of community that comes with it. That makes acts of kindness more meaningful
Some women who gave birth to pandemic babies in Anchorage hospitals say their transitions to motherhood showed them they were more capable than they imagined.
I’d like to invite anybody who’s been writing along, casually following, occasionally writing or just interested to a reading and meet-up at the Seed Lab on First Friday, 5/6, at 7. We’ll have an open mic reading of some of the work we’ve been doing in response to our pandemic story prompts.
Orso almost shuttered for good during the pandemic, but an employee’s gamble saved it.
The other side of the isolation of the last two years is the collection of people we’ve hung onto. Wendi Gratrix hung on to her Twitter friends. And they hung onto her, too.