It’s now been several weeks since Jan and I returned from a trip to Texada Island to assist The Ocean Legacy Foundation with a remote-beach-coastal-cleanup mission. What we found there was not altogether surprising (we’re no strangers to remote beach cleans) but the experience was eye-opening for the particular type of plastic pollution we came…
Ohhhh dear readers – sometimes we fall off the wagon, and it hurts. Do you agree? I was going strong! Posting regularly, connecting all these stories to the preservation of our oceans…and then this week happened. Everything was late, I waited until the last minute on all my projects, Mercury went into retrograde and everything…
Hip-hip hooray, it’s Wednesday! Time for another round of Wake Up Wednesday Wins. This week, as with all weeks, we’re connecting the dots between this list and our oceans: with food, clothing, and youth activism. Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, I hope you find this list inspiring; I know I sure did! Happy Wednesday…
A trip to Blackie Spit in Surrey, BC brings beautiful views and musings on trash cleanups.
Oppor-tuna-ty In New Ideas This started out as an ode to my sandwich: a tuna-free tuna fish sandwich (say that 5 times fast!). Its final destination was set for my dusty, not-oft-updated food blog and I did end up publishing it there. As I was typing up a short blurb for Instagram though, it hit…
OK, readers, I’m back to it. That plastic thing: walking, talking, doing the plastic-free lifestyle. There have been some bumps in the road and a few detours in the past few months but no worries! Here we are, mid-August and things are great. So let’s dive in! Let’s talk about teaching. No, let’s not talk…
Hello, blogging world! You might have noticed, upon closer inspection of this blog link, that things look a little different around here. Your eyes haven’t fooled you. Welcome to the year 2013, 7 In the Ocean! There have been a ton of changes happening in my life: personal, financial, work-related and I thought, “Can’t stop…
Because why not start your Sunday with a cute, adorable photo of a white tern? 😉
[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=Midway+Atoll&aq=&sll=37.6,-95.665&sspn=59.835084,135.263672&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Midway+Island&ll=28.210076,-177.37611&spn=0.029964,0.041226&layer=c&cbll=28.213461,-177.375001&panoid=pyHus1pW9T2JOb19YPu44Q&cbp=12,154.4,,0,0&output=svembed&w=425&h=350] See that cute little duplex? That’s where I lived on Midway. Say whaaaaat?! Yeah! I kid you not. The side with the random blue boogie board was home to all of Midway’s eager volunteers and we loved that place oh-so-much. Thanks to the power of Google, now you guys can see the island…
Hello, blog-o-sphere, I always wondered why it was called that. “Blogosphere.” Who came up with that term? Oh, turns out someone actually did coin the phrase: Brad Graham. Thanks, Internet. And hats off to you, Brad, for your contribution to society. I should see if the word has made it into the dictionary yet. 😉…
So says Bob, the man sitting across the aisle from me in the G-2 plane we took to get to Midway a week ago yesterday. He’s right and for some reason, I don’t believe it until we’re on the tarmac…on Midway. It’s surreal: leave Honolulu at 7pm, hurdle across the ocean for 2 hours and…