As much as I love talking about hiking, backpacking, and wilderness, I do have other interests, obsessions, and preoccupations. I'm pretty fascinated with tiny houses (an unrealized ambition), banjos, eco-advocacy, dogs, woodworking, and photography. This section is where I'll occasionally indulge those and other diversions…
- In Praise of Winter
- In Praise of Danger
- Finally, Autumn
- Integrating and Refining Multiple Passions
- The People's Climate March
- The Limits of Solitude
- Steering The Ship
- Film Review: DamNation
- Harvesting the Essential
- A Fist in the Air or a Hand in the Dirt?
- The Power of the Public Park
- Why So Plaid? A Case For Going Off The Grid
- To Hell With August
- 10 Tips for Landscape Photography
- 10 Reasons Backpacking is WAY Awesomer Than Car Camping
- 10 Reasons To Go Wild This 4th of July
- Navigating the Currents of Cultural Evolution
- The Edited Life
- 12 Great Podcasts: My Methadone for Screen Addiction
- Making Due With Awesome
- Just Beyond The City
- It Used To Really Snow In Nashville…
- The Patience of the Mountain
- What is Security On a Hot Mess Planet?
- A Love Letter To The Banjo
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- Video: Tiny House Inspiration
- Tiny Houses Making Big Moves
- toward tiny: 7 Reasons I Want A Tiny House
- toward tiny: 3 Ways I'm Trying To Radically Downsize
- toward Etsy: Cottage Capitalism
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- Pallets & Poverty: Repurposed Thinking
- Cooking With Pallet Boards: Experiments with Plant-based Wood Finishes
- Polishing Humility: Reclaimed Wood Projects
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