I think anyone who's paying attention knows by now that the world is on fire. Yet, if you walk into any supermarket, corporate office, or goddess forbid corporate shopping mall around where I live, it's disconcertingly hard to tell. I could go on ad-nauseum about the wide array of crises and catastrophes that hold up… Continue reading Into the Wild
Some people appear to have it together. Most people, even. Everyone faces their challenges, but it seems like for "normal" people, life follows a relatively steady upward trajectory, filling over time with steady relationships, meaningful accomplishments, and maybe even some measure of financial/emotional stability. I see it every day, but let me tell you friends...… Continue reading Cocoon Goo
While most of the titles on my bedside table since the pandemic haven't been directly related to conservation, there's one title I keep coming back to again and again: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. A decorated botanist and member of the Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer reimagines… Continue reading Braiding Sweetgrass: Medicine for the tired soul
With the window to keep global warming below 1.5° C, governments across the globe, including here in Canada, are issuing "Net-Zero Challenges." These loosely-worded programs offer incentives for private companies to opt into emissions reduction planning with the aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 or sooner. Sounds great... but in reality?… Continue reading Feel-Good Activism
If our minds are like a vast and varied landscape, our boundaries are the fences we put up to keep our thoughts, and the people we choose to to share them with, from straying into dangerous territory. Some fences keep us from falling into the pits and traps we all have by the time we… Continue reading Boundaries
It's been a while since I last wrote, and mercy, the world has changed. My personal world transformed in 2020 as well: in the midst of a global pandemic, I became a mother. My daughter lights up my life, but I must admit that I didn't manage the transition very gracefully. I spent about 4… Continue reading Crawling out of the 2020 hole
I visited Europe for the first time on a school trip when I was 17. While the other students in the group were queueing up at MacDonalds for a taste of home within the first few days, I teamed up with a brave companion and together, we ventured forth in search of something different, something… Continue reading Observations of an Aspiring Traveler
I want to write. On paper, with a pencil, where my ideas can flow from my brain through my hand and onto the page Without the permanence of ink. Keyboards and screens just won’t do. The plastic clack of keys and the glowing blue square, crowded with windows into other worlds, But none of them… Continue reading To Write
Hey friends. The snow is FINALLY melting, which means this southern girl might finally be able to venture outside without employing her best penguin impression to avoid slipping and falling on her ass--the freezing rain was no joke this year, y'all. Below you'll find a short fiction piece I worked on last year. Hopefully spring will… Continue reading A boat for the ocean
Hello there. If you're a human with internet access, you probably read the viral BuzzFeed piece on how millennials became the burnout generation. The article primarily discusses the circumstances that have created what the author calls the "burnout generation." While her analysis of how we collectively ended up in our respective manifestations of burnout is validating… Continue reading Letting go and moving on
A Quill of Conservation 