
Don’t Be a Square: Say No to Instagram FOMO
Last week, I went hiking after work on a trail close to my office. It was a beautiful evening: the grasses were at that beautiful stage of green before they turn summer-brown, the s...

In 2011 I set out on my first solo cross-country road trip, the first of many self-sufficient adventures to come, and thus, the one that made my friends and family the most nervous. I...

Sustainable Living & Its Impact On The Wild
Right now, as you read this, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 7.6 billion people sharing this beautiful, resilient, but not infinite earth: All of its resources, all of it...

Adventure is O̶u̶t̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ Everywhere
I once lived in a tent for a year. It was 2006 and my husband and I had been married for almost two years when we had an opportunity to move to rural Guatemala and live in a te...

Nature is teeming with life and possibility. Birds are flitting about making nests. Bees are buzzing and butterflies are fluttering. It seems like new flowers bloom ...

I take a deep breath, close my eyes, and listen to the sound of the breeze sweeping through the trees. I can feel the sun on my face, and ti...