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Solo-Pilgrimage in Norway: Bee Stings, Solitude, and Connection

Emma Lopez

Jul 244 min read

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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Colorful World of Vibrant and Dull Extremes: Finding Balance

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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To Dwell or Not to Dwell: How Do We Deal with the Emotions of Nostalgia?

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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Pacific Northwest: Traveling Through Light and Shadows

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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Death in the Mountains: A Quest of the Sublime

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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Designing Things, Places, and the World: Agnes Bourne

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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How to Become Confident: Through Experience

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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Get Uncomfortable: How to Get Into Your Growth Zone and Out of Fear

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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Autumn in the Mountains: The Complexities of Change

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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The Healing Powers of Nature: Feeling Alone

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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Can Our Younger Selves Predict Who We Will Become?

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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Catering for the Rich & Glamorous: An Eye Opening Night

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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Yellowstone: Blood, Tears, and Unspoken Prayers

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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Be a Man: How Gender Norms Shape Today's Kids

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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Falling Into Gutters, Devouring Fresh Fruit, and Swooning Over Sloths in Costa Rica

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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Self-Soothing: A Necessary Skill to Coping with Life's Challenges

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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