You know what really opened my eyes to how wasteful travel had become? It wasn't some dramatic moment on a…
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You know how sometimes a random conversation completely changes your perspective? That happened to me last spring when I was…
So I had this mortifying moment about eight months ago that I'm still not completely over. I'm doing this presentation…
Back in my day, we thought swimming pools were supposed to burn your eyes and turn your hair green. I…
Three years ago at some sustainability thing in Houston – okay, it was actually outside the city at this weird…
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…
Three years ago, I was that smug dad at a PTA meeting talking about how our family had gotten so…
Last Wednesday morning, I'm standing in my kitchen at 7 AM, staring down at my twenty-year-old coffee maker that just…
My old computer sounds like it's about to take flight these days. You know that wheezing, grinding noise when the…
Okay, so picture this: me, twenty-two years old, living in Austin on a nonprofit salary, standing in my tiny apartment…
About three years ago, I had what I can only describe as a minor existential crisis in someone else's living…
You know, I never thought much about what was in swimming pool water until my arthritis started acting up worse…
Four years ago, I would have laughed if someone told me I'd be mixing mud with my bare feet to…