Hello friends, from the one and only San Francisco! I’ve been back in my old apartment the past few months, after nearly two years of living as a vagabond-nomad, and conditions could not be more different than when I left. This time, I’m on a path of truer purpose and calling. I’m feeling grounded. I’m …
Continue reading An Unlikely Journey: Tech Refugee to Wilderness Therapy Guide to Bodyworker
Trail Journal, February 2025: A poetic and inevitable rainfall Back story: I’m with the girls’ band. We made it to this week’s “Final D” (final destination) and have set up camp at the foot of a small mountain in the Arizona high desert. We are tucked into a hillside juniper grove just above a running …
Time for an update! I've been starting to pull together some writings I worked on sporadically over the past months, to tell the story of where this adventuresome life chapter has taken me, and how I've been growing. I hope you enjoy! It's been a wild and spirit-guided journey... A rollercoaster of change and exploration, …
Continue reading Nomad Life Continues: Journey to Arizona Update #1
Holà fellow Earth lovers! Happy Valentines Day, and Happy (belated) Lunar New Year! Year of the Dragon! (Apparently this is an auspicious year for me as a Monkey because Monkeys and Dragons are allies.) I only started paying attention to the Lunar New Year a couple years ago, and though I don’t know much about …
Continue reading Puerto Escondido Update #4: Swooning on Valentines Day for Life!
Emma: Digital Nomad! Hi all! Well, I did it. I made it out of the country with a suitcase and a backpack full of stuff, and my work laptop. I'm a digital nomad now! First stop: Movement Mexico, Puerto Escondido. Where I intend to spend my free time diving deeper into the movement practice of …
This one is dark but honest. It doesn't represent all of where I'm at, but I'm giving this experience a voice because it has something to say that feels real to me. I'm nervous that this will cause people I love to worry about me. But I don't think that's a good reason to be …
Hi friends, family, random readers... This is a blast from inside Emma's current life in the SF Tech bubble. I'm sending out a little communication... as some kind of cross between an SOS and a progress report. I kind of don't know why I'm here. I came to SF a year and a half ago …
The past few days I've had a shift in awareness of my current life circumstance. I have really struggled internally on-and-off with my current line of work in tech, feeling that it isn't perfectly aligned with my passions and therefore is somehow wrong or bad, or that I'm living a lie by working this career …
I am in California at my dad's house, which is in the middle of a remodel process. I came here for a night after spending a week with my mom and brothers in Mendocino. This is a week of 'vacation'. It's the first significant holiday I've taken from work in the last year. When I …
Continue reading Vacation eyes ‘Work’ warily and dreams of Art
It's a lovely warm night... I have been so looking forward to the warm nights. They make me want to be a vampire. It is so blissful to be driving, in the nighttime. So quiet. Such a blank canvas. Part of me drifts, is at peace. I've been wanting to get a little high, more …
Expressions from this side of the here & now 