Traveling for Good — The Bunnies of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary

Dedicated to all the wonderful people and animals I met and got to know at the Best Friends Bunny House.

What does it mean to be someone? To me, it means … for there to be no-one else quite like you. Indeed, every person I’ve ever met cannot really be compared to anyone else. There’s just something fundamentally unique about each and every one of us that defines what it means to be someone. Uniqueness defines the individual, defines a sense of personhood and defines the concept of a being in this world. 

One day in the autumn of 2020, I realized that this applied to my rabbit back home, Marley.

My Message: An Update and Mission Statement

How We Got Here

Hi! For those of you that don’t know me — I’m Jamie, a vegan blogger who loves animals and is traveling the US in a van. I’d like to talk briefly today about how I got here, what I’ve been up to recently, and what’s next.

Free Books and Free Time: How to Read More During Your Day for Free

A few months ago I talked about how getting back into reading has been one of the best decisions I’ve made in recent memory and has expanded my worldview immensely. 

One of the most common responses I get when talking about this is: “I would love to read more but I just can’t find the time”.

This is certainly how I’ve felt a lot of my life! Maybe you can relate. Whether you’re in school or working a 9 to 5, when you get off in the evening it’s often already a game of almost impossible Tetris trying to fit in all of your tasks as is, nonetheless thinking about adding another task: reading.

The Blank Space Theory: How An App Might be Ruining Your Life

Last month, I read a book called Digital Minimalism, by Cal Newport. This book has been changing my life.

Flavor: Why “Tasty” Shouldn’t Have to Mean “Unhealthy”

There is a narrative of payment that underlies the understanding of food and nutrition for a lot of us. The idea that good-tasting food must be unhealthy, must be high in sugars and fats, must be inherently “bad” for you in some way. That it has to cost you something to eat something tasty. That healthy foods are inherently bad-tasting and that unhealthy foods are inherently good-tasting. This leads to an emotional trap of guilt, where we feel guilty for eating the good-tasting unhealthy foods and annoyed when eating the bad-tasting healthy foods. This description of food as either “good” or “bad”, while sounding cartoonish and absurd to some, is something I see repeated again and again throughout society, consciously or unconsciously. It’s a lie.