northern flux

Despite our conviction that we all need to be flying less, not more, Brie and I made a holiday trip to Costa Rica. Neither of us had been ...

  Brie and I hoped this trip would warrant a write-up in the News-Miner . The Circle-Fairbanks Trail isn’t particularly remote, but it’s ...

Here's the TEDx talk I gave, Living Smaller in a Warmer World . I implied that old snowmachines were okay, in certain circumstances. I t...

I gave a TEDx talk a few weeks ago, about the joys and merits of living smaller. As with many projects, it was down to the l...

When it came time this weekend for a toast – after I’d shot the pigs, after we’d scrubbed them, hung them, and skinned them, and after Ale...

I spent most of yesterday trying to write a foolproof essay explaining why I planned to vote Yes on Ballot Measure 1 and...

I got some pigs a few weeks ago. I got the idea when Ian said he wanted a dairy goat, but really I've loved pigs for as long as I can ...

I've had two stories run recently in the Outdoors section of the News-Miner. The first was about the snowmachine trip Mark and I did fr...

Several months ago, I did a write-up of our chicken coop for the Housing section of a popular poultry magazine. It appears now it's not ...