Your municipal worker makes you look good
A trip to drought-stricken Zimbabwe highlights just how vital municipal services are. It’s easier to see how much you need them once they’re gone. More on my Substack.
When saving the past means ignoring the now
For my Substack, I write about the powerful Historic Preservation Commission as it faces climate reality. Cue the absurdities.
How to vacation when the world is on fire
Is it just me or are summer holidays not the same anymore? I get a little doomy on my Substack.
Throwing shade on Princeton’s trees
Nothing invigorates the gossipy soul of Princeton more than how we treat our trees. But how much do we really love them, I ask on my Substack.
Climate newsletter
Find me on my new Substack, where I keep tabs on our changing climate. Sometimes earnestly, mostly not.
Highlighting local writers
In this piece for TAPinto Princeton, I interviewed the acclaimed Ethiopian writer, Mihret Sibhat, who happened to be over-wintering in our town.
Eyeballing the hyperobject
For my Substack, I reviewed Lydia Kiesling’s Mobility, and John Vaillant’s Fire Weather. Both books bring us chillingly close to climate reality, even as we try to look away.
Animal Gaze
A non-fiction essay in the journal Panorama: the Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature. In this piece I contemplate a surprise connection with animals when they turn their eyes back on me.
Great Zimbabweans
In commemoration of Zimbabwe’s 40th year of independence, photographer Hannah Mentz produced a visual media project to highlight 40 inspiring Zimbabweans. In partnership with Sara Davies and Jane Snelgrove, I co-edited the essays that accompanied Hannah’s portraits, all of which are published in the limited edition coffee table book, Great Zimbabweans.
Texan stories
A long time ago I blogged about early parenting in the Lone Star State. I keep threatening my (older, wiser) children that I’ll start writing about them again. While that sword dangles, here are the archives.
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