mixed greens

Making room for junk

A lot of the federal employees who have been fired, and leaders of programs being axed, have reported receiving a letter or an email stating that their services/programs are “no longer aligned …

Desperate measures

Back in 2016, there was tremendous anxiety among climate scientists and environmental activists that the new administration would delete or even destroy the historical record of climate change data …

Living well

Over the past few weeks, I’ve encountered a familiar phrase: “Living well is the best revenge.” More than once, my friends and I have invoked this saying to signify our …

Devices and desires

Small incidents can invoke a larger significance, from faith-restoring acts of kindness to those petty irritations that seem to signal a larger problem with the universe. It started when I …

Puzzling it out

If your work or personal concerns center on the realms of conservation, sustainability, climate response or social justice, you are probably as accustomed as I am to compressing the five stages of …

‘I’ll do it tomorrow’

Today is yesterday’s tomorrow. For procrastinators like me, deadlines are both a motivator and a curse. Rather than seeing the period of time before the deadline as a gift, we see only the …