Writing

A home for essays, field notes, and quiet questions

Essays

Stories of ecology, health, resilience, and the quiet patterns shaping how we live and adapt. These are longer pieces that bring together science, lived experience, and close observation.

Selected essays appear here. You can also find my full body of writing on Medium.

Featured

How the body stores a storm

Our bodies don’t experience storms, smoke, or loneliness as abstractions. They register change as stress signals, stored and remembered long after the event passes.

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Weathering Extremes: How Bodies Track a Changing World

As weather becomes less predictable, our bodies are asked to adapt in new ways. This essay explores what climate instability means for human health—and what it takes to stay steady in a world of increasing extremes.

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Loneliness: The Body’s Network Alarm

Loneliness is often treated as a personal failing, but the body experiences it as a physiological signal. This essay looks at disconnection as a health alarm—and what it reveals about the social systems we depend on.

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Why We Measure the Wrong Things: Health, Ecology, and the Future Beyond GDP

What we choose to measure shapes what we value—and what we neglect. This essay examines how dominant metrics distort our understanding of health and ecology, and why more relational measures are needed.

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Notes

Moments of noticing, micro-stories, and the patterns beneath the day. These shorter pieces hold observations that don’t need a full essay to be useful.

Notes appear here as they emerge.