If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. — Rumi This week, I've been thinking about the fragility of life. I've been thinking about how hard it is for so many of us to keep at it day after day. This morning, as my family mourns its own loss, I sit here praying for th...
I have been spending my summers at the end of an inlet in Canada for the last twenty years. It’s more than remote and the nearest house is ten thousand square miles away. We grow our vegetables, make our electricity from a glacier on the property, and I take my small boat out to catch fi...
This Week's Conversation Starter: What is your idea of taking a break, recharging, getting some rest? Share your thoughts with the table. Recipe: I know cooking a whole fish can be intimidating, but it's the cheapest and simplest way to acquire the best fish in town. You can look at a f...
As a journalist writing about climate change and the environment, I spend a lot of time thinking about nature and humanity’s relationship to it: what we have done to our planet, what we still can do to save it from being utterly transformed. Last November, I traveled to Maine for a stor...
