I have a confession to make. For two years, I maintained a Pinterest board titled “Dream Biophilic Home” that was,…
I never intended to turn my son into a research subject. Honestly, I just wanted him to sleep through the…
I never intended to turn my son into a research subject. Honestly, I just wanted him to sleep through the…
When we bought our cookie-cutter house in a development where every fourth home has the exact same floor plan, my…
When the pandemic hit and my consulting work went fully remote, I wasn’t worried about the transition. After all, I…
When my partner got the job offer in Minneapolis, I smiled and said all the right things. Great opportunity. Career…
The headaches started three weeks after we moved in. At first, I blamed the stress of unpacking, the new commute,…
Our community’s guerrilla gardening project started with five people, fourteen native plant species, and an abandoned strip of land behind…
I stared at my lease agreement with growing frustration, flipping through the pages and counting prohibitions. No holes in the…
The leather-bound journal sits on my desk, its pages warped from that time I spilled tea all over it during…
I never thought a bunch of native plants and some strategically placed boulders would completely change how we lived in…
The day I realized my “temporary” work-from-home setup had become permanent was the same day my back decided it had…
I almost got fired over a fiddle leaf fig. Not even kidding. It was 2019, and I’d just been promoted…
I used to think I was just terrible at picking paint colors. I mean, genuinely awful. I’d spend weeks collecting…
Remember that time I flooded my downstairs neighbor’s apartment trying to install a “rain curtain” water feature in my living…