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10 Tips to Survive International Travel with Toddlers
I survived a 4-week trip to Sicily with an 8-month old and 2.5 year old (and a husband). It went so well, we took another month-long trip to southeast Spain a year later. As I'm writing this, we're almost-thriving on a three week sojourn to southern Italy - our third...
My Journey to Emotional Intelligence: When Being Good Isn’t Enough
Thank you for joining me on this journey to emotional intelligence. Everyone should invest in emotional intelligence fluency. I believe that the higher our collective EQ - regardless of your gender or other identities - the more courageous we can be as a...
Introducing My New Dream Job
When I left my dream job last summer, I knew what I wanted to do, and I was scared to go for it. That’s why I’m excited, and a little bit queasy, to now introduce you to my new dream job: Occasionally Epic Communications, a strategic communications consultancy,...
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
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
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
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
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
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.
