What I'm about to say is probably going to piss some of you off immediately. And I get it. But I hope you'll stay with me while I talk about why I did what I did, and the very complicated feelings that I have about it. So. Here goes: I used AI to help me design this website. I know. I KNOW. Why? Why would I use a tool like AI knowing the negative environmental impact that it has? Especially given the kind of work that I do? I want you to know that I wrestled with this decision. I went back...

Lately, I've been thinking about elephants and dancers gracefully tumbling through the air. I've been thinking about getting everything I wanted, and it being nothing close to what I wanted. I've been thinking about resilience and pivoting and the state of the world and the country. How we're all being sold to, and we're all having to sell, everyone has a side hustle, everyone wants a 6-figure...a 7-figure... a gazillion-figure income, but we also want to live in a little house in the country...

I spent most of this summer building a little garden paradise in my backyard, so I've been very nervous about facing the winter. Seasonal depression is no joke, and my fear is that my summer was so peaceful and full of the joys of nature, that winter might hit me even a little harder this year. So I've been trying to plan ahead a bit for indoor house projects that I've been putting off for literally years - my hope is that I can make my home more joyful, and winter won't sting as much. As the...