Sep 21, 2015
Like many partnerships, Ted and Catherine Parrish find a comfortable balance between passion and pragmatism. So when Catherine first felt called to move from their established and relatively comfortable life in a diverse Chicago neighborhood to a small, rural town in...
Aug 20, 2015
The first time I visited Nevada City, CA, the proprietor of the Outside Inn — in which we were staying— told me that I was not to leave town without first talking to Reinette Senum — then the mayor. Unfortunately, I was not able to pull it off during that visit, but...
Jun 23, 2015
Earlier this week, I enjoyed reading a post on the Center for the New American Dream blog by April Roggio titled Reflections on a Resilient Family Road Trip in which she reflects on a recent 6 week, cross-country trip with her family of eight cozied up in a 1976...
Jun 18, 2015
Last week, while I was in Phoenix attending the Balle conference, I made my way through dozens of presentations, workshops, and conversations focused on shifting the dominant paradigm from extractive, individualistic, and competitive to wholistic, just, and...
May 11, 2015
For avid cyclists who are familiar with the area, the Driftless region of Wisconsin and Iowa has been the well-kept secret of road bikers for decades. My husband, who happens to work in the cycling industry, has boasted at length that the cycling here is as...
Apr 15, 2015
It wasn’t until my third day in Port Townsend, Washington that I finally got to meet Crystie Kisler of Finnriver Cidery, and by that time I had already learned that this area is a particularly special place — as inspirational a model of the localist movement as any I...
