It has been a weird couple days. A few months ago we had an idea for a very special kind of Eons episode — getting out of the studio and doing natural history content in the wild, so to speak. This week it was time to make it happen. Unfortunately, my life changed a […]
“They told me there’s a 0.8% chance of failure.” My dad shared this over the phone, a statistic meant to reassure me. Three days later, he was dead. It has been three weeks since then and also three years and also three hours. I don’t know that you can ever be ready for this kind […]
Tucked into the early pages of my 2020 planner (lol) is a post-it that reads START WHERE YOU ARE. This little bit of peak Instagram life advice has become a really useful mantra for me when I remember to use it. Mostly I need this reminder for times when the task anxiety is hitting me real […]
There’s a thought — or series of thoughts, really — that’s been trying to claw its way out of my brain and into the open air for a while now, but they are also the kinds of thoughts that are painful to share. Hurts to keep them in, hurts to let them out. I haven’t been able to get […]
When December started, the most surprising thing of all was that it felt like it had arrived quickly. Marveling at the remarkable pace of the passage of time is pretty standard, but in a year that often felt hellish and brutal, I assumed that reaching the end wouldn’t have caught me off guard. But here […]
I often wonder who I might have been if I hadn’t come of age with the internet. Pretending, for a second, that many of my most cherished relationships aren’t owed to that very fact, I wonder what my relationships might have looked like in that alternate reality. I am old enough to remember a world […]
Today I am both elated and also little bit heartsick. Proud and also tired. Yesterday I ran my first half marathon. I am an unimpressive athlete. Any athleticism I might have possessed as a child was squandered through a life spent largely indoors, staring at computer screens. As we approached our 6:00 AM start time, […]
For much of my life, I documented everything. Long, rambling journal entries begot long rambling entries in an AOL mailing list (LOL) which begot long rambling livejournal entries, and so on, and so on. And then there was this blog. Fresh out of college and overwhelmed by the endless array of possibilities (partially because it […]