My friend Jake from work has been talking about tiny houses for years. He’s always sending me YouTube videos of…
That ice storm in February 2021 was a real eye-opener for our family. I mean, we’d dealt with weather before…
You know how sometimes your kid asks you a question that completely changes how you think about something? Well, that…
So there I was last August, sitting in our living room at 2 PM with the thermostat reading 78°F inside…
So my seven-year-old daughter thinks I’ve completely lost my mind because I got genuinely excited watching a delivery guy on…
So my daughter came home from school last month with this assignment about supply chains – apparently they’re learning about…
You know how sometimes a random conversation completely changes your perspective? That happened to me last spring when I was…
Our family dog Max has this thing where he tilts his head whenever one of the kids practices violin, like…
You know that moment when you realize you’ve been part of a problem without even thinking about it? Mine came…
So there I was, feeling pretty good about our family’s environmental progress. Solar panels on the roof, composting bin humming…
Three years ago, I was that smug dad at a PTA meeting talking about how our family had gotten so…
About three years ago, I had what I can only describe as a minor existential crisis in someone else’s living…
When our fifteen-year-old gas water heater started making sounds like a dying whale last winter, I knew we were in…
The night our 18-year-old gas furnace finally gave up was, naturally, during the coldest snap Charlotte had seen in years.…
So my brother-in-law Rick cornered me at my daughter’s soccer game last weekend, super excited to tell me about his…