Welcome back: From Curb to Creek

After many months off the Internet I have decided to come back but in a slightly different direction. 

For the past few years, I've written about health and wellness from a Nordic perspective. I've loved it, but the space is full of excellent experts covering every angle.  From nutrition to exercise, motivation to mindfulness.  

The one area that I kept coming back to that I truly want to explore more is nature. 

In the Nordic countries, there's a concept called friluftsliv—open-air living. It's about spending time in nature as part of everyday life, not just weekend adventures. The research is clear and exciting, spending time in nature is good for our health and happiness.  

The truth is I struggled a little with my own connection to nature because I couldn’t live up to the expectation of what “outdoorsy” meant to me. And because of it I spent less and less time outside. This summer I started thinking about how you can practice friluftsliv when you're navigating city sidewalks instead of mountain trails and when the idealized version feels nothing like your reality.

Slowly I realized that this is where my true passion is, recapturing that connection, and that this is what I want to explore here at Curb to Creek—how to incorporate outdoor living into everyday urban life, so that more people can benefit from it. I'll share what I'm learning through research and my own experiences getting from the curb to whatever creek I can find.