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Monday Quote: #NationalClimateAssessment

December 2, 2019November 26, 2018

Today’s quote is from the #NationalClimateAssessment, which is important reading for everyone.

Tags #NationalClimateAssessment, climate change, evidence, future climate, growing season, heat waves, hurricanes, ice, National Climate Assessment, past climate, science, wildfires, winter

Saturday Shot: Nov 24

December 2, 2019November 24, 2018

Frost at the Cowichan Estuary, where a walk and some photography helped clear my mind.

Tags autumn, Cowichan, estuary, frost, nature, nature photography, outdoors, photography, plants, vegetation, walking

"I will admit that I am not well."

December 2, 2019November 21, 2018

“Writing this, right now, I am not well. This will colour the writing.”

Tags daylight savings, Indigenous, mental health, mental illness, NaNoWriMo, SAD, SAD lamp, scicomm, science communication, science writing, truth, Victoria, workshop, writing

Monday Quote: California Wildfire Survivors

December 2, 2019November 19, 2018

Today’s quotes are from survivors of California’s deadly wildfires, particularly the Camp Fire, California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire ever, which devastated the town of … Read more

Tags air quality, California, Camp Fire, climate change, dead, devastation, disasters, missing, Paradise, risk, trauma, wildfires

Saturday Shot: 17 Nov

December 2, 2019November 17, 2018

This week’s photo shoot is – you guessed it – from my yard again. This time of year we have a lot of magnificent fungi … Read more

Tags autumn, ecosystems, gardening, grasses, light, moss, mushrooms, nature photography, photography

NaNoWriMo is Hard

December 2, 2019November 14, 2018

Writing every day is a great way to get words on the page that you can fine tune later. Since November 1 I’ve been participating … Read more

Tags #wordsmatter, Anne Lamott, books, daily practice, Dani Shapiro, editing, NaNoWriMo, shitty first drafts, words, writing, writing advice

Monday Quote: Olivia Laing

December 2, 2019November 12, 2018

This week’s quote is about how we perceive time when on long walks, and relates to a few books I’ve been reading.

Tags Jeff VanderMeer, Katharine Norbury, Michael Cunningham, Olivia Laing, Ouse, quotes, reading, river, Southern Reach, Sussex, The Fish Ladder, The Lonely City, To The River, Virginia Woolf, writing

Saturday Shot: 10 Nov

December 2, 2019November 10, 2018

Two photos from my perennial garden last week.

Tags flowers, gardening, macro, nature photography, perennial garden, photography

Results of My Blogging Experiment

December 2, 2019November 8, 2018

What it was like to blog every day for a week, and what it means for my future blogging.

Tags blogging, conversations, experiment, literature, mental health, mentoring, mentors, Nobel Prize, photography, quotes, reading, scicomm, traffic, women in science, womeninSTEM

Mental Illness is Not Like a Broken Leg

December 2, 2019November 7, 2018

When people talk about reducing the stigma around mental illness, they often liken it to having a broken leg – except it’s your mind that’s broken. But does this analogy really help?

Tags anxiety, bipolar, broken leg, depression, health system, healthcare, mental health, mental illness, normalizing, public awareness, public health
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