There is this piece I go back to sometimes, that I wrote in February of 2021. The paragraph where it says: “What I desire most right now is to grow my own food on land. To eat eggs from chickens that I know. To surround my own home in flowers and lace and soft things. To drink a lot of tea. To have a bird

The problem with academics through my lens is that being an academic becomes a Very Important Identity.  In the world of academia, academia is very important.  Most academics learn they are Great and Smart and Hard-working people.  And they learn to conform to a rigid set of structures and rules.  They write the way they are told.  They learn to think the way they are

Reflections on hiring a house assistant: Hiring someone to come support our home is the best thing I have ever done.  I had so many judgments. There’s only me and Jordan, we don’t even have kids, it’s not like I’m working 8 hours a day, we already have cleaners, etc etc etc.  But two days a week we have this wonderful woman come for 4-5

“What do you do” is a hard question for me to answer because I don’t fix broken people.  Nobody comes to me with a problem that needs to be solved.  Not really, even if they think they do.  They quickly discover that the thing in them that is pulling them to me, is the only reason they are here.  It doesn’t matter what they want. 

It was back in the end of 2018, just a few weeks after starting this business… Someone I knew was talking to me about Bitcoin, and trying to explain cryptocurrency to me My brain had absolutely no understanding really of what he was talking about. I had heard people mention crypto here and there before, but I was of the understanding that it had already

Today the mandates ended in BC.  For 7 months we have not been able to go to restaurants, movie theaters, gatherings, or generally participate in most of enjoyable society.  This was a form of pressure and for a lot of people it worked.  It would never work for us.  I would never abandon my knowing for pleasure.  I would never abandon the truth of my

Today I had 7 poop buckets to take out, in the rain.  It was my turn but we were post-wedding and then sick and it just hadn’t happened yet.  Jordan was on a call and I thought, well, so what if it’s raining. We leave tomorrow.  I could leave them but I’ll still have to take care of them when we return.  So I went,