One of my fiance‘s best friends came into town to meet me last weekend. I was nervous about the visit–first impressions are stressful for most people, I assume–but I quickly realized we had plenty in common. Including, it turns out, a goal to live sustainably. I was pleased to learn that she also reads this …
Update 1/2025 – Hey y’all. I’m keeping this piece up for posterity, but I want you to know that I know longer agree with my takeaways here. I revisited the topic in a follow up post here, which I recommend you read before this post. I’m pretty self conscious about my body. Not the most …
It’s true: I said yes to my partner’s, “Will you marry me?” But this blog isn’t about how he popped the question. I’ve been telling that story to anyone who will listen. No, this blog is about the part of the story most people don’t care about: how my engagement ring aligns with my zero …
I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t start mending because I was trying to live “zero waste”. That habit was a child born of necessity. I used to have an easy way to fix things: my parents. As I’ve said before, having a support system makes living zero waste a whole heck of a lot …
One of the most common zero waste questions people ask me is, “What about toilet paper?” Sometimes asked with smugness, sometimes with horror, the question of toilet paper waste is universal in the western world. Until recently, I didn’t have a satisfying answer. Mostly, I worked in compromises. Zero Waste Home suggests getting toilet paper …
Not too long ago, I was taking the bus to my job when I noticed an ad behind the bus driver. I don’t remember the exact wording, but the message was clear: Seattle was now providing public transportation from the city to hiking trails around Washington starting this summer. A rush of adrenaline coursed through …
The phrase “Eco-friendly artists” is a bit of an oxymoron. Your half empty cans of paint, discarded drafts, globs of hot glue, and tiny scraps of fabric will most likely end up in landfills. Don’t worry; I’m not suggesting any of the artistically inclined cast off their paint brushes and effigies of Bob Ross. Reducing …
I came home one day to find that my landlord had chopped down my peace lily. Since this was only the latest in a long string of affronts, I wasn’t so much surprised or angry as just genuinely sad. First of all, I’d had that peace lily for six years. In that time, it had …
I’ve been looking forward to this upcoming weekend for awhile. Since December, to be exact. This weekend, my partner and I will head to an AirBNB on the other side of Puget Sound. The trip was my Christmas gift to him last year. I covered this concept a little in last week’s blog, but I …
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Believe me when I say I’ve had some bad Valentine’s Days. I’m talking in a black dress and pumps, makeup and hair done up right, drinking wine from the bottle, walking around a grocery store at 8pm on February 14th to buy myself chocolate and flowers while crying kind of bad. And that was while I was …
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