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How To Upcycle Your Winter Gear

How To Upcycle Your Winter Gear

The concept of reduce > reuse > recycle has been around for my entire lifetime, but upcycling is especially in vogue right now. I encourage you to take advantage of this present momentum with the ideas here to upcycle your winter gear. Originally written...

Cautionary Tales of the Watery Kind

Cautionary Tales of the Watery Kind

Dreaming of summer? Here's a reshare of an essay highlighting cautionary tales of the watery kind. Originally written for Mountaineer magazine, I tested the waters and asked my community for their tales so you wouldn’t have to.. Stay dry out there friends. I have a...

Help Me Find My Next Dream Job

Help Me Find My Next Dream Job

You blew me away when I shared that I was leaving my dream job earlier this year. Your encouragement, kindness, and words of wisdom took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting such an outpouring of support, which just made me realize how all of us are incapable of seeing...

How To Pick The Best Snow Sled

How To Pick The Best Snow Sled

Now that winter is looming, I wanted to reshare this article comparing the relative merits of different sledding apparatus. Originally written for Mountaineer magazine, I tested the limits so you wouldn't have to. Learn how to pick the best snow sled for the next time...

The Pacific Northwest Costume Climbers

The Pacific Northwest Costume Climbers

Everyone knows I love a good theme party, especially an outdoor celebration with costumes. For one of the last articles at my dream job, I wrote about how the Pacific Northwest Costume Climbers are taking our beloved Mt. St. Helens Mother's Day tradition to the next...

I’m Leaving My Dream Job

I’m Leaving My Dream Job

Not many people leave their dream job. I’m leaving mine after 11-years. Here are the 11 lessons I’m carrying forward with me into the unknown.

ABOUT ME

I’m a communications professional and outdoor lover with a passion for the outdoors, storytelling, NY pizza, and hyperbole. I’ve helped clients discover and tell compelling stories, design effective social campaigns, and create scalable communications systems. Interested in working with me? Get in touch.