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How To Make Your Nonprofit Job Application Stand Out
Job hunting is a fascinating, horrifying, exhausting process. While I hardly consider myself an expert, I frequently help update resumes and edit cover letters. I love helping others figure out how to get a job, especially with nonprofits, and I'm here today to tell...
Turns All Year: Month 86
The snow began to fall in the Cascades, big and flaky and deep, right around the time our plane touched down... on the other side of the country. Skiing tends to go this way sometimes. Winter in Seattle can be fickle. Hell, summers here are fickle too. If you blink or...
Good Days Are Made: Ice Capades Edition
I wrote this piece in the summer of 2018 for Osprey Packs and I was excited about how it came out. You can read the original piece (including more photos) here. I can feel the weight of the liquid sloshing around in its overstretched blister cavities with...
Turns All Year: Month 85
I'm not going to sugarcoat it. After riding lifts in August and September for Turns All Year Months 83-84, I was not super motivated to get out and hike for turns in October to get my 7-years. I did it anyway, ignorantly thinking the "recent snows" meant I wouldn't be...
The Surprise Wedding: A Video
When you plan to have a surprise wedding, items quickly get sorted into one of two categories: 1) things you can control, and therefore are allowed to care about, and 2) things you cannot control and have to let go. Food. Music. The dress. Those all fall in the former...
The Prairie Ring: My Personal Talisman
It turns my finger the color of burnt orange peels when my hand gets damp. I paint the inside with clear nail polish to avoid this inevitability, but steel is not the best medium for jewelry. A horseshoe nail bent into the shape of a ring, this symbol of 'prairie...
Resolutions for 2019
We've been traveling for a day and a half - 36 hours on planes and in airports and on trains in airports. Fitting my swollen feet back into my shoes after the 14 hour flight, one of three to travel nearly 6,000 miles, is a herculean effort. When the cab finally...
Happy New Year!
At the end of December, it's fun to reflect on memories that made us smile and consider what things we'd like to leave behind as we enter a New Year. A lot of things made me smile in 2018. Spending my birthday skiing a twofer on Helens and Hood and saying 'yes' to...
Turns All Year: Year 7 (Month 84)
What's the best way to celebrate seven years (84 months) of turns all year? The snow dances in cascading sparkles as we move, the crystals refracting the sunlight in every direction. Theresa and I are skinning toward a convex slope on an especially warm spring day. A...
