This is a very personal space of growth, healing, learning, sharing, and cobbling together a new path forward after spending decades as a Pettigrew-like sychophant. Mentally and emotionally abusive to those I love the most — including my partner, with whom I am deeply in love. In order for me...

Dearest Asha, You know I love you. I tell you all the time. Too much, probably. You’re so easy to love. Charming and kind. Courageous. Brilliant wit and soulful heart. A beautiful voice. Dazzling smile with galaxy eyes. For all the reasons that anyone else who meets you will love...

I’m living entangled between two dreams. One is the life I have been living for 26 years. The other is the life I want to be living from now on. I feel squeezed and stretched by the separation of these two very different ways of living. The emotional pain of...

these are a handful of excerpts and copy/pastes from digital and hand-written journal entries related to my personal experience in trying to live a more awakened life. As I find more, I will post in the appropriate dates. (Oct 24 2021) I accept the responsibility of being the author of...

Well, my IRB application for the pilot study is complete, signed off by my faculty advisor, and in the hands of the IRB themselves. Saybrook has about a four-week turn-around for all IRB applications, apparently, which is not ideal. I applied for an expedited review, so I’m hoping to get...

I still contend that the loneliest Ph.D. to do is one in the field of sustainability. Maybe especially in the field of sustainability as interpreted through the practice of design. I can’t be sure, but it’s a gut feeling I have about it. There is a vast community of sustainabilists...

In response to the threat of the chancellor closing three campuses in the Vermont State Colleges system, thousands of community members, faculty, staff, students, and legislators banded together and forced the campus-closing option off the table for now. The real work is ahead of us as we try and re-imagine...

Jeb Spaulding, the chancellor of the Vermont State College System, recommended on Friday April 17th that the VSCS board should vote to close three of the system’s campuses: Johnson, Lyndon, and Randolph. The response has been overwhelmingly against his recommendation. Faculty in the system along with alumni, students, and community...

Land use and rights of use is going to become an even bigger issue than it is now. The gamut of land-use perspectives runs from the “we are stewards” to “only we have control over what happens on this parcel”. Frequently these two extremes clash, for example, in the wind...

Designing is a means by which the lived-worlds of a variety of people are changed without those people necessarily having a say in the changes. It is a practice that requires deep thinking about ethics because of this. When a product, service, or system is changed through a design process,...