Politics
I'm done swallowing my stories: Starting a Substack
August 29, 2025
I’m approaching my 21st anniversary of publicly sharing my life online, and I plan to continue because the constancy of the practice brings me comfort, like my other long-standing habits. I also carry on because I refuse to swallow my stories for the sake of a larger cultural or subcultural agenda.
Some foundations of Western cultural unseasonality: An introduction to seasonal living
January 30, 2025
The philosophical introduction to a seasonal living essay. (Let's talk about it at the seasonal living salon.)
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 beating of my wild heart (aka: my feminism)
May 3, 2024
My feminism is a desire to listen and live according to my wild human heart, mind, and body. What this actually looks like is ill-defined; it’s certainly not a program, plan, or anything I would prescribe for someone else. There is no pledge of allegiance in this “ism,” no flag or banner under which I march.
Finding a work “thing” in the cultural, relational, and economic context of my life
March 6, 2024
My marriage, and family life in general, is an economic (as well as political and social) relationship. When Damien and I married we combined our non-material and material assets, resources, talents, and capacities for the flourishing of the whole, which in our case, is the family.
Getting started: Feminism, patriarchy, capitalism, neoliberalism, Marxism and the family in 1,500 words
March 1, 2024
I want to talk about the context in which the work exists and from which our work decisions are made.
It takes one to know one: Dogma, heresy & fear
July 17, 2023
Going through the pandemic and living in this cultural moment where it feels like down is up and up is down has taught me many things. But one clear lesson has been our human fallibility to closed-minded thinking, group think, mob mentality, and tyranny.
