Emily here, reporting on my second straight calendar year of no flying (first year post). At first, I couldn’t think of much to say about the absence of an experience, the same way I have nothing to say about not riding a camel and not driving a tractor. I just haven’t done it; it’s not a… Continue reading Year Two of No Flying
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Sleeping on a Dog Bed for a Year
From October 2022 to July 2023, I slept on a bed that I made myself by hand. It’s basically a giant rectangular pillow, made of a length of velvety, navy blue synthetic fabric and filled with synthetic pillow stuffing. I jokingly call it a dog bed in the title of this post because while it’s… Continue reading Sleeping on a Dog Bed for a Year
I Made Lunch
I had just gotten back from my big trip when the farm I volunteer at asked for someone to take the lead on food/catering arrangements on their annual humble harvest celebration. This was an up-to-50-person event: no small fry, and it would be the biggest audience I’d cooked for yet, if I did. So of… Continue reading I Made Lunch
Biking to a Cob Workshop
In the middle of October I spent two weeks embarking on an adventure I’d been planning for a while: this is the whole story of that adventure. Earlier in 2023, I was thinking about how important it is to have some idea of not only what I am trying to reduce (ecological disaster, suffering, injustice,… Continue reading Biking to a Cob Workshop
Beantown Digest: Issue #1
I’m so excited to share the first issue of my new monthly newsletter, the Beantown Digest. This will be an email newsletter, separate from the email subscription to this blog, as it’s for Greater Boston-specific content. You can subscribe to the Beantown Digest here. For this first edition only, I am putting it on my… Continue reading Beantown Digest: Issue #1
A 10 Day Vipassana Meditation Course: The Adventure
At the end of June I temporarily departed workaday life to go on an adventure. Back in the winter of 2022, I waitlisted for a 10-day Vipassana meditation course at the nearest center to me, across the state in the western Massachusetts town of Shelburne. I think I heard about Vipassana from two sustainability people:… Continue reading A 10 Day Vipassana Meditation Course: The Adventure
Soup
Hello friends! I’ve been encouraged to provide my Soup powerpoint (circa 2022) in a more easily accessible location, so I’ve converted it to blog post form. Enjoy! bean soup or becoming a better person through soup (Updated Spring 2023) I’m going to break it down, easy as soup. Table of contents 1. What I do… Continue reading Soup
A Conversation with Chuck
Creative Health Food Store is a small store on 108th and Broadway, sandwiched between the row of small stores that occupy the first story of The Manhasset, a century-plus old apartment building that occupies the block. I started shopping there in my senior year at Columbia because I was getting into beans and out of… Continue reading A Conversation with Chuck
Project Pack Out
Over the past year or so, I’ve gotten much more aware of the trash problem. But even as I compost, buy my food in bulk, and wouldn’t be caught dead with a disposable coffee cup, it’s still all too easy to order a packaged delivered, grab an office snack, and let the associated garbage vanish… Continue reading Project Pack Out
I Got A Job, So Time to Offer Career Advice
Alternative title: things I think I learned about job and career searching in college. First, Why I Am Qualified to Give Advice Well, I’m not. But I did have An Experience that I am pretty proud of having gone through. I had a non-ideal internship stack up (not a single internship in the industry my… Continue reading I Got A Job, So Time to Offer Career Advice
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