Here's a question that I've been thinking a lot about: what does it mean to say that you have purpose? Or that you have a purpose? Do you have to be able to define...
Some years ago I heard Abigail Disney speak about her documentary films and about her belief in the importance of telling women's stories. She had made a film about women and war, she said, because women have...
I don't know about you, but I am finding the world to be a wearying and discouraging place these days. More than that: terrible, maddening, heartbreaking.
Racism. Sexism. Environmental crisis. Every day seems to bring...
What about your apocalypse then? Well, the universe is a leaf on a time-tree, and come autumn it's going to shrivel and fall off into hell. -- China Mieville, Kraken
There's a heat warning for...
This past weekend, my mom was evacuated from her home in British Columbia due to wildfires. She's still evacuated; she knows that her home is still standing, but the fires are still burning and...
It was going to be our last canoe trip before moving to the US; to say that we were looking forward to it would be a gross understatement. We loved those trips. Sure, they...
We’re staying home this long weekend. It’s too hot at our usual getaway (our current happy place), and we’ve just been too busy to make other plans. We may head to the beach for...
(Part III in a series on the pursuit of purpose, whole happiness, and – because we should always dream big – a better world. Read Part I here, and Part II here. Go here...
Late last year, we said goodbye to Tanner. He had taken a bad turn and been medevaced to BC Children's Hospital; his doctors said that it would be our last chance to see him,...
The Whole Family Happiness project is two things: first, and foremost, it's an exercise in exploring what it means to attach our personal happiness to a larger understanding of happiness as a kind of...