Category: Blog

  • Seattle to Portland: My Dream Team

    Lizzy Carter Earlier this month, I rode my bike from Seattle to Portland.Yes. The STP ride. Two days, 206 miles, one bike, and a whole lot of grit. We were a group of 16 people, with 9 riders, and 7 amazing supporters, and enough protein chocolate milks to fuel an…

  • The Phone Between Us

    By Lizzy Carter I couldn’t help but notice..Everyone is looking down. At restaurants, at red lights, in line at a cafe, even on dates! Those first, flirty, nervous ones where eye contact is supposed to matter. We reach for our phones like a comfort blanket, like it’s some reflex we…

  • The 4th, of July

    The Space Between Traditions It’s 11:35 PM on the Fourth of July. The fireworks are going off outside my window, but instead of watching them from the dock or the back porch like I usually do, I’m lying in bed, writing this. Some things don’t go as planned, I guess.…

  • What is love, anyway?

    Elizabeth Carter I had just finished watching the new movie Materialists. I found it stylish, clever, and surprisingly layered. It left me thinking about the ways we love, how we show up for it, how we chase it. Later that night, while talking with a friend about the movie, about…

  • The Art of Noticing

    June 21st, 2025By Lizzy Carter Lately, I’ve been thinking about the wind. Not in a poetic, Instagram caption kind of way, but really noticing it. The way it brushes against my cheek on a slow morning walk. The way it makes the trees perform, their branches bending like dancers in…