Family as community
Tree Day & Getting Ready for Christmas
December 18, 2024
The timing of holiday preparations are not a tradition for us. What we do and when we do it and how much of it we do really depends on the year and where we're having Christmas. But now that live in this home are there definitely tree traditions to uphold.
The power goes out and the writing goes on
December 9, 2024
Writing papers on weekends is not how I want to live my life at 49 years old, but this too shall pass.
Thoughts on social capital and location independence in a time of climate change (and other crises), in the context of an intergenerational familial “homestead”
August 26, 2024
Our social networks matter. And passing along social networks to our children is a way that parent’s help their children establish themselves in life.
The Clothesline Episode {YouTube Video} & living my best summer life
July 21, 2024
I know to be suspect of things that are too good to be true. Also, that fairy tales aren’t real. But this summer, as we’d say in grad school, "is challenging those narratives".
{Video Post} First days at our new home
July 8, 2024
The YouTube video from our move and first days in Nova Scotia.
These first days
June 24, 2024
It has been an unbelievable landing and arrival here. The briefest of days soaked rich with summer, meaning, and import. I can’t say the days will only get better from here because, honestly, this has been a week of highlights. But I do know that Oilers playoffs aside, living here will regularly bring me into contact with magic.
We're leaving the kids
April 5, 2024
I have a goal to produce more more video content after we move to Nova Scotia. But first I'd like to close the Montreal chapter and talk a bit about leaving the kids.
