1961 ad for Margee Fitzpatrick, first woman to run for mayor of Anchorage. She later said of women in politics, ""They are the ones who do the shopping, raise the sons who go to war, and bring up the daughters who chase the sons who go to war." #alaskahistory #anchoragehistory

I clicked on a video for “dark royalty core” (“a playlist for waltzing with your enemies”). Turns out: it’s just classical music.

We spent all morning thinking it was a crumpled up old sock in the corner of our living room. It was poo. #parenthood

One hyper-specific form of racism I've experienced and witnessed that I've been wanting to shine a light on for a long time is the discounting of Asian anger. If your reaction to an angry or upset Asian person is to infantilize them, then go fuck yourself. npr.org/2021/03/17/978…

I don’t care if you’ve had kids, there’s something inherently creepy about when a toddler looks deeply into your eyes and just says: shhhhh

Biggest takeaway after closing all my rings for 100 consecutive days : you really can’t outrun a crappy diet 😬 instagram.com/p/CN74NdCHTRZ/…

I’ve realized there are two types of people in this world: Those who say folding a fitted sheet is easy and those who aren’t liars.

this meeting hasn't started, and I'm not even going to be there, and I've still felt on edge with anxiety about it all day.

Scenes from the second day of a wild Anchorage Assembly meeting where a mask mandate was being considered

"If Alaska were a country, it would be the nation with the world’s highest per capita case rate, according to data from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University."

Wow

A consequence of making the Library a "division" of the Parks Dept? Dept. directors have to be confirmed; "division" heads don't. Charter 5.02.(a)The mayor shall appoint all heads of municipal departments, subject to confirmation by the assembly, on the basis of prof[.] qual[s].

Last night, Mayor Bronson repeatedly said he visited AK Regional Hospital 10 days ago and everything seemed fine, so how could there be a crisis? 1 hospital visit, thousands of new cases, dozens of reported deaths ago. Seems like really incomplete, outdated info to work off of #AKgov

Meanwhile, hospitals in Anchorage and Mat-Su also report receiving a barrage of harassing phone calls from the public, berating providers for not administering ivermectin or just yelling at whoever answers the phone, a hospital association official says. on.adn.com/3oJJzuK

The word of the week is “dilatory”

Anyone else feeling really acutely aware today of how much you took for granted as an American girl/woman coming of age in the ‘90s-‘00s?

My favorite kind of sweater weather is the first day in April you can hang around outside in Anchorage wearing a hoodie with no coat over it.