We all know social media has changed us: in the best case, it lets us connect with people we would never meet and stay in touch with those we already have. But the dark side is fully manifesting and so we need to evolve. I’ve been giving conscious thought for years to the question of HOW? How do we escape… Read More
Friends, Backup Your Backups
Friends, back up your stuff! This is my semi-regular PSA to make sure you’re backing up all that data you would be miserable if you lost. After several hard drive failures in succession in the early 2010s, I put together a triple redundant backup system that I use to this day to make sure I don’t lose irreplaceable things —… Read More
Climate Solutions: Online Thrifting
I’m a big fan of the idea of thrifting, especially for clothes, and I’ve even given my kids thrift-store gift cards (because they were into it as well), but I always ran into a road block personally: finding thrifted clothes in plus sizes was not easy. SOLUTION: ThredUp I’d heard of ThredUp, an online women’s clothing thrift store where you… Read More
De-Dander Dipping for the Holidays!
Do you have family or friends coming for the holidays who are allergic to your pets? This post is for you! Meet my geriatric and bothersome (but beloved!) cats, Ninja and Techy: The whole family loves our goofy cats, but my three kids, once they moved out of the house, found that (to varying degrees) they were all suddenly allergic… Read More
Climate-Conscious Gift Giving
In case you didn’t know, I have a podcast/substack! Bright Green Futures is all about lifting up stories about a more sustainable and just world and talking about the struggle to get there. So it’s mostly about stories and climate stuff, both of which inspired me to put together a Climate-Conscious Gift Guide for the Holidays. Subscribe to the substack… Read More
Make Something BETTER
I’ve been processing a lot since the election. My latest take is that radical disruption often opens up the possibility for change that you normally really would not make. Things you’ve been putting off. Ways of limping along that worked okay. But disruption shoves you out of the comfort zone and makes you do stuff—and sometimes that stuff is really… Read More