Sanctuary
September update: my Montreal trip, a time of solitude, folk festival and building project videos
September 24, 2024
A short, newsy update and most recent videos.
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.
It's still summer & saunas
August 23, 2024
A new video has been uploaded to YouTube. In it we visit Sand Dollar Beach and marvel at the marine wildlife, I give a tour of our entry and clean a bookshelf (I hope it's more interesting than it sounds). You'll get a peek into my herbal apothecary, watch us (my dad) build the sauna deck, and we'll go to the blueberry patch together.
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.
Leaving Home & Returning Home
January 11, 2024
The house will be done by Christmas of this year. And sometime in spring, 3 years after that initial phone call, we’ll be leaving our home in Montreal to move, quite literally, to my parent’s home.
