NEIGHBORS: Where have the workers gone?
I got curious about why there are still long drive-thru lines, long waits at restaurants and so many help-wanted signs in Anchorage.
Make these smoky salmon cakes to dunk Beau Schooler’s magic ranchovy sauce
Beau Schooler’s fish cake recipe that uses a combination of salmon trim or freezer fish and smoked fish. Plus his famous ‘ranchovy’ sauce
NEIGHBORS: Who helped you through?
In this story, I wrote about how micro-communities we formed during the pandemic have blossomed into deep friendships.
Elders: Join me for a free pandemic writing reflection workshop
This free two-day writing workshop for people 55+ is meant to help writers craft and refine short pieces of nonfiction work.
Got Alaska wild berries? I got recipes!
Here are nine rad recipes for Alaska wild berries.
Everything you love in a blueberry muffin except it’s a sweet/tart blueberry streusel cookie
An off-the-beaten path recipe for Alaska blueberries—especially frozen ones. Refreshingly not pie, jam, muffins, pancakes, or bread
Throw backyard berries into these chewy, melty chocolate-raspberry pan-bangin’ cookies
Give me a thin, chewy cookie, a little under-baked, with melty pools of chocolate and tangy raspberry.
NEIGHBORS: Alaska’s child care sector is in crisis, but market conditions are great for small entrepreneurs
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.
Grill Hawaiian-style chicken thighs for a quick dinner
Try these sweet and smoky chicken thighs made Hawaiian plate-lunch style.
NEIGHBORS: Chaos for homeless ripples into downtown Anchorage, where ambassadors guard a fragile recovery
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.