My friend took an internet test to determine how big a footprint she is leaving on the earth.
After the computer condescendingly spat out, “Congratulations! If everyone in the world consumed the way you do, it would take 2 1/2 worlds to sustain us”, she decided to dramatically decrease her habits of consumption for a […]

I sat facing my instructor, prepared to learn a new technique—an elbow to the windpipe, a devastating side-kick to the knee-cap, or palm-heel smashing upward into the nasal cavity.
But this class was different. It was quiet. There were no forceful yells or fast moving hands. There was no need for a mouth […]

The illustrations for The Magnificent Tree are coming along beautifully.  Click here to read the book and see a sample illustration.

I am a youngin’. A spring chicken, if you will.
The world is my oyster and I am ripe for the pickin’. I have never been more ready to go than I am right at this very moment and let’s go, time’s a-wastin’, let’s move people.
It’s just that there’s this picture on my wall.
And […]