Emma Lopez
Solo-Pilgrimage in Norway: Bee Stings, Solitude, and Connection
My hand swells up to twice its size, oozing clear liquid, and i've never felt better. About four days prior, I was traversing the notable...
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Emma Lopez
Jun 145 min read
Kauai, Hawaii: Can a Place Change Us?
Kauai, the oldest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, is known as the “Garden Isle.” Its lush tropical rainforests and mystical mountains...
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Emma Lopez
Jun 25 min read
A Slow Life
I returned from Hawaii a couple months ago and sat down to write about it. I didn't get very far, and left the words to marinate in an...
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Emma Lopez
Feb 78 min read
10 Superfoods That Give Me Superpowers
The word "superfood" is a bit wonky if you ask me. A superfood is defined as, "a nutrient-rich food considered to be especially...
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Emma Lopez
Jan 284 min read
Colorful World of Vibrant and Dull Extremes: Finding Balance
When I arrived in Wyoming, I fancied vibrant yellows and then deep rusty oranges - the colors of aspen leaves in the fall. For the first...
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Emma Lopez
Jan 24 min read
To Dwell or Not to Dwell: How Do We Deal with the Emotions of Nostalgia?
Nostalgia creeps in like the cold of winter. Slow at first, then one day the icy wall shows up with full force, impossible to ignore....
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Emma Lopez
Dec 9, 20235 min read
Pacific Northwest: Traveling Through Light and Shadows
A mother and daughter sit at a countertop in a bar facing out to the quiet street. They are drinking oat milk hot chocolates. It's 9pm in...
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Emma Lopez
Nov 15, 20235 min read
Death in the Mountains: A Quest of the Sublime
Another man died in the mountains. I say another because that fate is not uncommon in mountain towns. I say man because fatality among...
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Emma Lopez
Mar 13, 20238 min read
Designing Things, Places, and the World: Agnes Bourne
Agnes Bourne was three years old when she designed her very first home. I haven’t seen this design, but through Bourne’s vivid...
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Emma Lopez
Nov 10, 20224 min read
How to Become Confident: Through Experience
Many people want confidence. Many people wonder why they don’t have it. There are things that I am very confident in, such as leading...
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Emma Lopez
Oct 24, 20224 min read
Get Uncomfortable: How to Get Into Your Growth Zone and Out of Fear
There are a lot of things that are scary about life. Everyone has their own personal anxieties, and oftentimes avoidance is how many...
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Emma Lopez
Oct 7, 20223 min read
Autumn in the Mountains: The Complexities of Change
I have been seduced by the phenology of quaking aspens. In the winter, they stand softly, white bark against white snow. Their eyes,...
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Emma Lopez
Sep 25, 20223 min read
The Healing Powers of Nature: Feeling Alone
Peyton is in 8th grade. Blonde, formidable beauty in her future, remarkably rebellious, sharp as a nail, and tragically wrapped up inside...
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Emma Lopez
Aug 20, 20224 min read
Can Our Younger Selves Predict Who We Will Become?
In college one of my friend groups used to play board games nearly every night we got together. Not chess, or monopoly, but more abstract...
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Emma Lopez
Jul 27, 20227 min read
Catering for the Rich & Glamorous: An Eye Opening Night
"Do you have clothes?" Jennifer, the woman who just hired me asks. I am momentarily confused. Jennifer has on a sleek sleeveless white...
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Emma Lopez
Jul 14, 20223 min read
Yellowstone: Blood, Tears, and Unspoken Prayers
I think that the traffic is because of a bison, but as I round the corner I see a woman laying in the street with a pool of blood around...
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Emma Lopez
May 14, 20225 min read
Kids and Screens: A Reason to Scream
I am walking through the forest with some 6th graders when one exclaims, Wait, these spruce don't look anything like the ones on...
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Emma Lopez
May 9, 20224 min read
Be a Man: How Gender Norms Shape Today's Kids
I walk back from an evening program with a school group, and four kids are crying. That's how I know it's been a good night. I take them...
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Emma Lopez
May 5, 20225 min read
Falling Into Gutters, Devouring Fresh Fruit, and Swooning Over Sloths in Costa Rica
Approximately 5 minutes after leaving the hotel in Costa Rica, I fall into a gutter... hard. Costa Rica's streets are lined with gutters...
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Emma Lopez
Mar 20, 20223 min read
Self-Soothing: A Necessary Skill to Coping with Life's Challenges
Imagine something traumatic has happened to you. Maybe it actually has. We may have a support system - Parents, friends, teachers,...
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