When Ethical Businesses Close One of my longest-standing partners, MATTER Prints, emailed a few weeks ago to announce that they’re closing this chapter of their business. Covid-19 has ravaged small …
Margins, Stories, Faces
As you very likely have gathered, I have been swamped working over 40 hours a week as a hospital chaplain since May 18th. Chaplaincy 101 While I knew what I …
The Links That Changed Me | White Supremacy
Articles and pieces that speak to the types of questions, fallacies, and misinformation I’ve seen on my personal social media feeds. I admit that I meant to get this up …
Business Casual Capsule Style Inspiration
Building A Business Casual Capsule on Limited Resources Y’all, I am unreasonably stressed out about building a business casual capsule wardrobe for my internship that starts tomorrow. Under normal circumstances, …
How to Support Workers This World Fair Trade Day
How to help struggling fair trade businesses during this time.
Tradlands 101 Margot Shirt Styled 3 Ways
This post contains affiliate links One Shirt, Three Ways With not much else on my plate right now, I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about my chaplaincy …
The Links That Changed Me | Edition 09
If I wanted to, I could share a billion things I’ve read over the course of the last couple months. But I confess that I have been fighting off a …
What If I’m Wrong? Looking for Truth in Sustainable Fashion
Sustainable Fashion Influencing Have you ever tried to process so many things at once that it’s as if each thought is a piece of over-cooked spaghetti tangled up in your …
Why Lab Grown Diamonds Are Sustainable
Why Lab Grown Diamonds Are Sustainable Mined Diamonds The world of diamond mining and manufacturing has historically been fraught, to put it mildly. From the prevalence of child workers in …
What’s Changed in the Fashion Industry Since “The True Cost” Premiered?
The True Cost premiered five years ago and I recently re-watched it. Here is what has changed in the fast fashion industry, where there’s cause for hope, what The True Cost misses, and ethical fashion advocacy that really works, plus a call-to-action.
Dress-Up #3 | A Cancelled Wedding
My Sister-in-Law’s Wedding Today was supposed to be my sister-in-law’s wedding, and I was supposed to be the photographer. Even though it’s the last week of classes, Daniel and I …
Thoughtful Style | Thrifted Windbreaker
A Thing I Wore I went to physical therapy a couple weeks ago and wore a version of this outfit. After my introductory appointment, I was able switch to tele-health, …
When You’re a Helper Who Can’t Help
A Helper Who Can’t Help While I have not extensively studied the Enneagram, it’s safe to say that my personality is fairly equally balanced between a 1 and a 2. …
Book Review: Ted Karpf’s Acts of Forgiveness
Acts of Forgiveness Book Review Today is Holy Saturday, the day when, as my professor, Sister Janet, put it: Jesus is really, really dead. It is not the whimsical procession …
Dress-Up #2 | How’s It Going?
How’s it going? That seems to be the question these days. Every Wednesday evening, my first-year Episcopalian group from seminary “gets together” on Zoom to check in, share our highs …