Moving
Thoughts on seasonal living in the season of the empty nest
March 11, 2025
As I step into the empty nest season of life, I find myself leaning more deeply into the rhythms of nature, my own body, and the cycles that shape human experience and existence. In this essay, I share reflections on seasonal living—what it means, why it matters, and how this stage of life has granted me the freedom to align more closely with the natural world.
Past, present, and future winters
January 9, 2025
Having moved to the South Shore of Nova Scotia, I find myself reflecting on the evolving nature of winter—both in the environment and in my life. I’ve traded Quebec’s snowy, winter sport-filled landscapes and culture for milder, less snowy winters. While I anticipate missing the deep snow and exhilarating outdoor activities (especially in the mountains), I’m am hopeful about this new chapter, grounded in my deep satisfaction and love for my home and the people I share my life with here.
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.
Thoughts and feelings as we are about to move
May 30, 2024
The intensity of this whirlpool of experience and emotion has released my ages-old, nebulous, and miasmic fear of failing my children and the more specific fear of the pain (for them and me) of the inevitable struggles, difficulties, and suffering of life.
