Don't underestimate the power of dinner

Notes on: Bev's Dog Grooming, gin, Alaskans' relationship to work, potato chip salmon, redemption, delicious recipes that happen to be vegan

This town always has a gift to give you if you talk to people. Like today I picked Fitz up from getting his semiannual haircut at Bev’s Dog Grooming. And Bev asked me about my mother — who has had four successive dogs groomed there — and then informed me that she is 87 years old. I asked the secret to keeping so vital. She told me it was going to work e…