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A Walk to River Camp

I went to River/Landback camp yesterday. Before we walked up, we spoke to two young forest defenders who had just come down from Heli...

Injunctions and injustice - the courts & Fairy Creek

Our family started thinking about Fairy Creek for real only five months ago. (Can this be right?? It feels a lot longer than this. But...

How can we sleep

Random thoughts about Fairy Creek, the rule of law, the future of the planet. You know, Minor stuff. All night I’ve been tossing and...

15 Things I Can Do Instead of Mindlessly Overconsuming

This morning, something unusual happened: I had an original thought. I’d just woken up, and was thinking about the day ahead as I lay in...

Whooshing by

The really great thing about starting a blog that very few people read is that you can say whatever you want, whenever you want. The...

Whole30 Update

Hey, so it’s Day 21. I meant to blog every day about what was happening for me, but I quickly realized a) nobody would actually care and...

Dan Reynolds, Whole30 & Me

Dear Dan Reynolds, I’ve started the Whole30 diet because of you. It was that awesome Instagram post on April 10 of you, shirtless. One of...

All Hail the Little Free Library

As far as I’m concerned, the best innovation of the last ten years isn’t Google Home, the Las Vegas Golden Knights, or self-driving...

Fantastic-Don't Panic

My favourite saying of all time (although one I don't heed nearly often enough) is "don't panic." It comes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to...