Island Flavor: Picnics on Alaska Airlines. Shortest. Column. Ever? I was thinking about Snoopy when I ordered it.
I’m trusting that at least some of my readers remember Snoopy, the World War I Flying Ace and head beagle in the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Schulz.
The Flying Ace was only one of the fantasy identities of Charlie Brown’s dog. Snoopy imag...
Island Flavor: Safeway deli’s Asian supreme saves the day At the Safeway deli, a $7.99 Asian supreme special turns into a $40 expense.
But it’s not a bad thing.
It’s an effective way to meet the demands of the day.
I have a present to send to my mother, and there’s a postal service center inside the Safeway foyer. But I’d like to find a greeting card to...
Island Flavor: The back door to halibut happiness Sure, it’s great being a restaurant critic until you get tired of eating.
Or, better said, too tired to eat.
This is how it was on cruise ship Tuesday. My partners and I shopped, measured, cooked, baked, and packaged for days. We schlepped crates up my stairs and back down again, in and out of my...
Island Flavor: Near Island Coffee hits stride in Kodiak I suppose the mark of one’s maturity is how one adapts to change.
Things happen. Opportunity knocks. Challenges confront. External events, even positive ones, poke at our good nature.
I was thinking about my own reaction to change this week when a moving van delivered the last bits of my Colorad...
Island Flavor: The Old Powerhouse: a review ahead of its time One advantage of a previous career in academe is I’ve learned how to reason my way out of an ethical conundrum.
My particular problem is this: I’m joining my lady friends for dinner at Old Powerhouse Friday, but my column (in which I review Old Powerhouse) is due on my editor’s desk Thursday.
Th...
Island Flavor: Java Flats caters to health nuts April is the cruelest month, T. S. Eliot said in his compelling and influential work, “The Waste Land.”
Those owing federal income tax may agree.
But inhabitants of Kodiak Island know the designation “cruel” belongs not to April but to the long winter month when Alicia McEwan closes Java Flats f...
The café at PKIMC: Cheapest lunch in town Employees at Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center recently hosted an enthusiastic team of some 20 epic visitors.
Actually, that should read: Epic visitors.
The team was in town to help staff switch to a new method for hospital record keeping, a digital system called Epic.
I may be the only n...
Island Flavor: Familiar, yet unique, Subway offers the best of both It’s no secret I’ve joined the ranks of responsible people who work in an office. Not just any office, mind you; this one’s a beautiful corner office downtown with tall windows, a gorgeous view and a printer/fax machine that actually works.
I’m loving it.
But I must adapt to a new modus operandi....
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