After DJ, Grover, and I celebrated Ted Stevens Day in Cuddy Park, we moseyed over to check out the inaugural Anchorage Mini Maker Faire on the Loussac Library lawn.
Ted Stevens Day: Get Out and Play at Parks for All!
Today was Ted Stevens Day, and to celebrate the memory and spirit of Alaska’s “Uncle Ted,” a Get Out and Play event was held at the Cuddy Family Midtown Park, kicked-off by the long-awaited, highly anticipated ribbon-cutting and inaugural play on Anchorage’s first Park for All, a Boundless play area that will provide an estimated 8,500 kids with disabilities in Anchorage with a place to play.
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Stories Around Town: Snow Cream, a Fashion Benefit, and Reading to Dogs
Last week was a bit slow on the news front, at least in terms of stories that I found interesting and relevant to Anchorage, but this week I found all sorts of fun things to read!
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Picnic in the Park
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that bring us the most pleasure. Like a picnic in the park to break up the workday.
La Bodega Baby! And the Worthiness of Second Chances
I stopped by La Bodega shortly after it moved to its new location in the Metro Mall. I’d heard they were fantastic, but a semi-surly guy at the register kind of turned me off… then we had beer aficionado out-of-town family visit. They’d done their research of places to check out and were dead set on visiting La Bodega, much to my dubious surprise. When they came back raving about how great it was, Hulin-designed shirts in hand and all sorts of interesting beverages to sample, I figured I’d give it another try.
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Love Note: Charlotte’s Web
I spotted this ground-level window-scape nod to Charlotte’s Web as I walked along H Street one day. It made me laugh, and wonder who? and why? Regardless, I love it.
Button Box Gang
There’s something so cheerful about polka music, even if it invokes a memory of a fierce lady instructor propelling me around the floor while shouting instructions to other dancers and lecturing me about how I was doing it all wrong while my friends snickered from the sidelines. What can I say? She was right; I’m not a particularly talented dancer.
Despite this traumatizing event, I still like a bit of polka now and then, as I was reminded when I encountered the Button Box Gang on July 4th.
Love Note: Dark Horse Sidewalk Sign
Oh Dark Horse, your coffee-themed witticisms never fail to make me smile.
Sadler’s Alaska Challenge
During the summer of 2000, I was looking for an adventure – I was home from my first year of college and even though it was great to be back in AK, I felt discombobulated. I tried to distract myself by filling my days as full as possible by working, coaching soccer, house-sitting, camping, hiking, etc. But I still wanted to find something more. And then I found it: Sadler’s Alaska Challenge.
The Amazing Dr. Faulkner
You know those things you don’t really want to do, so you put them off, and put them off… but eventually they catch up to you and you just have to grit your teeth and do it? Visiting the optometrist (or doctor, or dentist) is generally one of those things on my not-super-fun list, but last week my long overdue visit to the eye doc finally caught up to me. I dragged myself to the appointment early one morning… and then remembered why it’s not so bad after all: Dr. Faulkner is pretty darned amazing.