The natives are restless out here in Quarantine USA. I am too. I want to dance with my friends, hug them in public, browse around thrift stores looking for bargains, shoot off my wide open mouth over coffee in a cafe. I want to touch …
In March/ April 2020, as the pandemic raged, I interviewed a dozen colleagues who’ve carried the torch of sustainability for decades – with great passion, vision and persistence. After years of achieving base camps but never summiting the mountain of resistance to a shift in …
I have spent most of my adult life experimenting and teaching lifestyle choices that actually ripple up from personal change to social benefit. Yet in the face of this pandemic, these can-do approaches to life’s basics sound tinny. Our freedom of motion is constrained. …
What can we do!? We want to feel in control in an out of control time. We want to occupy our minds with something other than worry. Granted, some people are buying toilet paper, hand sanitizer, guns and pretty much anything in grocery stores to …
Covid has blown holes in walls of denial and selfishness everywhere. Poetry and prose and possibilities are pouring out from millions of people around the world. We are one, we sing. Our choices matter to how this turns out, we say. How can I …
Counting the blessings and lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, I’d top my list with a renewed public appreciation of public health. People around the world have been willing to quarantine themselves not just for self-protection but for the public good. We don’t know if …
I wrote the below for the Your Money or Your Life community. I’m reposting it here because I think this virus can be a wake up call for everyone living paycheck to paycheck, spending like there’s no tomorrow, in contract or gig positions that …
March 8, 2020 is Woman’s Day. If it has a face, I say it’s Elizabeth Warren’s. This is the week Elizabeth stepped out of the Presidential race while staying in the fight. Millions of women’s (and men’s) hearts sank at losing a candidate who could …
The temperature of anxiety is rising. Scratch the surface of more and more “normal” people and they spill out their concerns and how they are trying to cope. I wish I had some balm to offer for our times. A time balm. In the …
We have entered the 2020’s. The decade, I believe, of the demise of what we took for granted as we-the-privileged of the United States feasted on the last course of the banquet set before us by fossil fuels and empire. This has been a …
