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A Family Outing, Part I: Madrid

Looking over the general pattern of my ‘adult life’, I can divide my years between adventures far from home and periods spent among family and friends in the Bay Area. Things seem to move in a fairly predictable rotation between the two. Recently, I had a most wonderful opportunity to combine the best of both [...]

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A Return to the Alhambra

I seem to keep coming back… * * * * * * * *

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A New Year Entirely

Holy smokes. I look away for what feels like five minutes and a year slips by without an update. Such has always been the dilemma, in my experience, of being home. Home I italicize because it is a slippery concept in my mind and heart and one that calls for constant examination and debate. But [...]

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For Love of the City

I always feel a peculiar polarity between wanting to live in a beautiful, pristine rural setting or in a bustling, hustling metropolis. Setting up shop in an old farmhouse somewhere and doing some serious homesteading sounds fantastic. Chickens, bees, gardens, canning and tree planting and building things with old tools hanging in an old tool [...]

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Designing for Disaster: Evaluating the Potential for Application of Permaculture Design in Development and Emergency Contexts

This site has received less attention than I would like over the last year and a half, due in large part to the lion’s share of my energy and focus being centered on my studies in England. As such, I am glad to make use of this page now to announce that I have completed [...]

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