Okay, so I’m not a therapist or anything, but I’ve been going down this rabbit hole about how plants and natural light actually affect mental health, especially for kids and…
Okay, so this is going to sound kind of nerdy, but I’ve become obsessed with whether my plant collection actually makes me think better. Like, beyond just feeling less depressed…
Okay so this is going to sound dramatic but bear with me – last February when that polar vortex hit Chicago and knocked out power for three days, I had…
I’ll never forget the moment I realised COVID had completely changed how we think about our living spaces – and it wasn’t during those endless lockdown days in my 400-square-foot…
I never expected to learn one of my most important parenting lessons while pulling waterlogged drywall out of a stranger’s kitchen. But there I was, three weeks after Hurricane Florence…
So this is going to sound weird, but I spent last Saturday morning lying on my stomach in a community garden watching ants. Not because I’ve completely lost it (though…
I never thought I’d become the guy with an EMF metre, but here we are. It started about eight months ago when I began getting these persistent headaches during my…
Look, I’ll be honest – when I first started getting obsessed with workspace optimization and biophilic design elements, I had no idea how to actually measure whether any of this…
A couple years ago, our youngest daughter asked if she could bring her eight-year-old son over for dinner more often. He’d been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder the year before,…
So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this whole obsession we have with trying to recreate jungle vibes everywhere we live, regardless of whether it makes any sense. It…