Daring to Tell the Truth About Sustainability Today’s guest post is from Terry Spahr, Executive Producer of 8 Billion Angels, a documentary exploring the impact of humanity’s growing numbers on planet Earth. The film details mankind’s rapid ascent across the globe and the inextricable links between population and our ever-increasing food, water, climate, and extinction emergencies. Terry uncovers the truth about climate change, […]

Childfree Vacation: No Kids, No Fun? The WNK quartet was recently indulging in a little mid-week, mid-summer bliss (think Lake Champlain, locally grown eats, frosty libations, nary the shadow of a kidlet) when a couple of us stumbled on a particularly obvious reason we have no kids. We are kids. Sure we’re all in our fourth decades, but maturity seems to […]

Friday Funny- Why No Kids? Black Thumb. Hopefully this explains everything: Also this: (Who kills succulents??? Me.) In 2002, I had a cactus for almost a month! Eleven years later I decided to try again with little success. In 1998, I got a puppy! In 1999, I gave it to my folks.Good news: fourteen years later they are not so eager for […]

No Quiet Zones for this childfree traveler? By now we’ve all heard about Air Asia X’s quiet zones, seven designated economy class rows at the front of planes where children under 12 are not allowed, a point of contention for some pissed off parents and a supposed paradise for business travelers and the childfree, like me. To access this frequent […]