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Creating and Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle Wherever You Are
It can be easy to be healthy while living in an affluent urban area where you are a stone's throw away from a juice bar and an equinox...

Emma Lopez
Sep 12, 20214 min read


Reevaluating My Path to Happiness
Slipping out of the hotel room and into the quiet dark streets of rural Slovenia, I feel as though my heart might be set ablaze. The cool...

Emma Lopez
Jul 27, 20217 min read


Can I have your life? The Flattering Question That Makes Me Cringe
I posted a picture to social media last week of a moose that I saw while exploring the Bighorn Mountains. Someone commented, "Can I have...

Emma Lopez
Jul 8, 20214 min read


Is My Life Worth a Hat? Grappling with the Value of My life
Never had I been forced to consider the worth of my life before my last solo-hike. I am hiking a trail called Upper Layout, a modest hike...

Emma Lopez
Jul 2, 20216 min read


A Park Ranger's Experience Visiting Yellowstone National Park in the Summer
There is a Mott's fruit snack wrapper floating sadly in a bubbling thermal pool. I find myself staring at it longer than the geyser...

Emma Lopez
Jun 3, 20216 min read


Simple Swaps for Healthy & Sustainable Living
Throwing away all your plastic Tupperware, leftover Halloween candy, plastic bags, conventional makeup, and single-use razors is not only...

Emma Lopez
Mar 17, 20219 min read


The Fate of Relationships for Young Vagabonds
As a young adult, I am on the move quite a bit. Everywhere my feet land, I am unsure if I will make this plot of earth my home, or if I...

Emma Lopez
Feb 26, 20214 min read


Fast Fashion: A Fast Way to Destroy Our Planet
Back in high school, I remember getting my first paycheck from my job, going to the mall with my friends, and spending it on poorly made...

Emma Lopez
Feb 11, 20215 min read


I Love Aging
I love aging. I don't know if I will still be feeling that way when I hit 40, but right now I am in love with it. I love the way my body...

Emma Lopez
Feb 4, 20214 min read


The Art of Being a Soft Badass
You're driving down the freeway when some ambiguous person in a purple Dodge Challenger comes out of nowhere and aggressively swerves in...

Emma Lopez
Feb 3, 20214 min read


6 Signs of an Emotionally Abusive Relationship
There is a good chance that either you or someone you know has been in an emotionally abusive relationship. The National Domestic...

Emma Lopez
Jan 25, 20217 min read


Why I am Vegan (essay)
It is easy to live your life following societal norms, but harder to entertain the idea that perhaps our entire ideology is skewed. I can...

Emma Lopez
Jan 20, 202111 min read


5 Mantras that Changed My Life
Words only have power and meaning if we give them the means. Logs won't burn without a means to spark a flame, and a piano will not...

Emma Lopez
Jan 15, 20215 min read


My 1 Week Music Detox - Why You Should Do It Too
It seems like everyone is detoxing themselves from one thing or another these days, whether it be dairy, social media, an ex - You name...

Emma Lopez
Jan 12, 20213 min read
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