Are You Self-Promoting or Bragging?: Balancing Your Exterior and Interior Lives
Earlier this year, American writer Dani Shapiro published a piece at LitHub about balancing social media and writing. She recounts how she sent out a … Read more
Spring: Snow, Water, Wildfire, and Gardening
The BC River Forecast Centre (RFC) released their April 1 snow survey bulletin this week. April 1st snow water equivalent (the depth of water you’d … Read more
Coming to Terms with the Past
Since I had my knee injury I’ve been sitting around pretty much doing nothing. I regularly ice my knee, and do loops around the house … Read more
Wild Geese
This week has been a bit much. In good news, my book review came out in Science, and my first literary piece comes out at … Read more
A Single Moment
In her memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion focuses on how life can change in a single moment. Her husband dies suddenly, while … Read more
Wandering the Web: Feminism, Reading, Thoreau Surveying, and California Water Photography
This last week has been incredibly busy, and wasn’t helped by a day spent in bed and another day spent recuperating from being in bed. … Read more
Improve Your Productivity By Making Time for Rest
If you’ve read my blog for a while, you know that, because of my illness, I have limited time in the day to do things … Read more
It’s the End of the World as We Know it… (and I Don’t Feel Fine)
On climate change, politics, and the power of good women writers. The last week has been pretty chilly for the Coast, especially for February. Where … Read more
Should We Stay or Should We Go?
When we first moved to this house I was convinced we’d never move. I wrote: “At some point you have to take a deep breath, … Read more