A Small Space for Joy?
In my last post I wrote about small griefs. And now I have a small garden plot, stuck between a [...]
August 2022
January 2021
Grief and the Environment
. . . though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. —Haldir of [...]
November 2018
For the Professor: Working Toward Zero Waste at MiddleMoot 2018
Park University hosted the 2018 MiddleMoot in Kansas City, the first in the metro area and the second after a [...]
August 2018
Shorelines: An Introduction
Edges have always compelled me to go and stand on them, even if they scare me. My favorite word is [...]
July 2018
Boulder Changes, or, DSLR Girl
Boulder, Colorado, can be a delightful place to live—if you just moved there with buckets of money, or if you [...]
June 2018
Imaging India
India was a place I'd wanted to visit since I was in my twenties, and when I finally arrived at [...]
March 2018
What’s Missing
Today was a long day. I woke up and thought, as usual, that I really must buy some cereal. [...]
March 2017
My Resolve to Avoid Plastic—and How I Sometimes Choose to Fail
Recently I bought a facial cleanser in plastic packaging. I didn't want the packaging, but I did want the exfoliating [...]
Why You Don’t Need to Own a Car in Kansas City
Last year I moved back here after living in Colorado for thirty years. One day I was standing at an intersection [...]
November 2016
4 Easy Steps to Restore the Environment
"Environmental restoration" sounds serious, doesn't it? And difficult! But it doesn't have to be. I fervently believe every American can [...]
October 2016
Sustainably Farmed Wine from Sicily
Where better to get look for natural, organic, biodynamic, or sustainable wines than a health food store like Nature's Own [...]
September 2016
Green and Weird: That’s Me
I get some weird reactions when I whip out my reusable utensils. When I used them at a picnic recently, my friend [...]
July 2016
Making Chocolate Sustainable, Part 2
This is post number 3 in my series, the Love Conversation About Conservation (Loco About Conservation for short), and my [...]
Can Chocolate Be Sustainable?
This is post number 2 in my series, the Love Conversation About Conservation (Loco About Conservation for short). The idea [...]
Can You Recycle Plastic Spoons for Ice Cream?
This is Post number 1 in my series, the Love Conversation About Conservation (Loco About Conservation for short). The idea [...]
June 2016
My Low-Car Diet for Kansas City
I moved back to Kansas City in February 2016, thinking I would probably buy a car at some point, but [...]
December 2015
On the Old Delhi Food Trail
When we first arrived in India, we stayed in New Delhi, the planned city the British built in the early [...]
Taj Mahal and Sheroes Hangout: Two Versions of Love in Agra
When our guide Sudhir mentioned the "aha" moment, our cynical brains said, Oh, yeah? We arrived at about 10 am, [...]
November 2015
Tourism Helping Orangutans? Kalimantan in the Burning Season
Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesia, which Todd and I visited in October 2015, was permeated by smoke. Parts of [...]
Domestic Animals in Asia: Not Pets, Yet Not Always Feral Either
We saw lots of dogs and cats on the street in Asia, but they were not pets in the American sense. [...]
Wandering Smoky Jakarta, and Staying in Kemang
Jakarta, a city of around 10 million people, has a couple of central districts where tourists like to stay, namely [...]
Ojek Nation: Indonesia
Jakarta was our first stop in Indonesia and our first Asian city, and many people seem to think it's a [...]
Christchurch After the Earthquakes: A Story of Resilience
At the last minute I emailed Emma Healey of Money Can Buy Me Happiness to see if we could meet [...]
Wellington a Canvas for Its Residents
We spent two and a half days in Wellington, and what I remember of the city is a swirl of [...]
October 2015
Xtreme Recycling Engages a Community in New Zealand’s North Island
Xtreme Zero Waste in the small community of Raglan, on the central west coast of the North Island, was one [...]