Month: February 2026
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Year of the Squash
This morning the snow was high enough on the windows that the light in the kitchen looked underwater. I was thinking about ice dams and how every winter I forget…
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Therapy Thoughts
I was warning my therapy group that I’m intentionally inflicting psychic damage to myself this week. My therapist told me I am very self aware and emotionally intelligent. I’ve been…
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The Soft Rebellion of Planting Trees
Lately I have been thinking about solarpunk, guerrilla gardening, and the idea of the commons, and how all three of them seem to circle the same quiet conviction that the…
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Not so Lazy Sunday
Pretty productive day yesterday. Went and did my taxes in the morning with my mom. We always do them together. Afterward we went to the bagel place near my parents’…
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Playing Hooky to Read Books
Thursday morning I woke up and decided, that I was not going to be productive. I was going to play hooky. From what? Technically, from nothing urgent. The chores will…
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Let me go outside! I have planning to do!!
At some point we need to wade out into the snow with a measuring tape and actually figure this out – draw out a good map before we go after…
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Weekly Highlights 2.9.26
This week felt like one long side quest that kept branching into smaller, more annoying ones. I ordered sweet potato slips so I could get them rooted indoors and ready…
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The Worst-Case Scenario Is Still Half a Billion Trees
I keep coming back to this thought experiment, and it refuses to leave me alone. What if everyone over the age of 10 in America ate one apple every day…
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The Life I Want
Every year around the new year, I reread The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up manga by Marie Kondo. There’s a mental exercise in it that I think is worth returning…