5 Ways to Support Elderly Parents During Harsh Winter Months—Even From Afar
The first frost of the season always brings it back. For me, it’s the memory of my father, years in the past, determined to smooth […]
The first frost of the season always brings it back. For me, it’s the memory of my father, years in the past, determined to smooth […]
It can happen on the spot. One minute, you are safe in your own kitchen, and the next, a sound or a scent pulls you […]
It begins subtly, almost as a whisper underneath the cacophony of current life. A lingering feeling of fatigue that coffee can now longer thrust back. […]
There’s a quiet magic that happens while you step off the paved path and into the embodiment of the wild. The fragrance of damp earth […]
Your status within the grocery line, the fluorescent lights humming a stupid, frantic tune. Your smartphone buzzes—another email. The person at the back of you […]
It hits around 4 PM. The workplace window, once a window to the world, has turned out to be a block of obsidian. The solar, […]
We tend to think of our mental health in grand, sweeping terms. It’s the story of approximately 12 months of burnout, the narrative of overcoming […]
I have a confession. I find gyms a little strange. The fluorescent lights, the low grunt of effort punctuated by the clang of metal, the […]
We inhabit an age of colossal solutions. We’re advised to repair our mental well-being with a radical new diet, a 90-minute-a-day meditation routine, an online […]
Imagine a world without hospitals. Not as a dystopian nightmare, however, but as a historic truth. For the enormous stretch of human records, the idea […]
For twenty years, I carried two bags. One becomes a camera bag, worn and weathered, filled with lenses that had visible savannahs and rainforests. The […]
For over fifteen years, I’ve worked in the delicate space between childlike wonder and biological reality. My career, spanning zoological education, wildlife rehabilitation, and designing […]
For twenty-five years, my boots have been muddy. They’ve trodden the sodden peat of vanishing bathrooms, crunched the desiccating soil of encroaching deserts, and slipped […]
For over twenty years, my life has been framed via the sound of snapping twigs in dense rainforests, the misty blow of a whale in […]
We’ve all heard the testimonies. The clever crow, the loyal dog, and the mischievous parrot. But for every animal celebrated for its smarts, there are […]
There’s a memory that lives in my bones, one that surfaces whenever town life becomes a continuing, steel hum. It’s the memory of a path […]