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Our time runs out: Portland roundup
Routines, reflections, and favorites from three months living in the same spot
 • Haley Young
What does "gossip" mean?
And how bad (or actually productive and prosocial) is it?
 • Haley Young
My interview with Carol Mithers, author of Rethinking Rescue
It's finally live! An in-depth conversation about the ties between human and domestic animal welfare
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Ways we've gone increasingly feral
Cliché: We moved into a van... and Sean started making his own granola.
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Carpe noctem: Notes on The Darkness Manifesto by Johan Eklöf
"Henceforth if you want me after sunset you will only find me by candlelight." ★5
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There is no finish line
I want to be done so I can be loved. Maybe the ultimate checklist is separating the two.
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I am distraught but I am in paradise
So soon after declaring I was all charged up, I have spent an hour trying (and failing) to unknot the twists in my stomach.
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Hometown vignettes: Wausau, Wisconsin in winter
Nine nights, three flights, and alllll of the emotions.
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Reading tales of grief to make sense of my own
Aside from a poem here or there, I have not known how to write meaningfully about my mother’s illness. She is the one inside the body that resists.
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A running list of my dog- and animal-related reading
An ongoing list both for me to look back on over time and for others to reference if they’re interested in chatting about a particular title. I’m always…
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How we (and our dog) get quality sleep in our converted van
Living on the road means it’s not always simple to get quality rest… especially for our hyper aware herding dog. Here are the challenges and how we…
 • Haley Young
What does it mean to be “outdoorsy”?
When I first shared our van life plans, I got an anonymous message wondering why we wanted to live on the road.
 • Haley Young
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