I sprained my foot last weekend (more to come in this weekend’s essay) and let me tell you there are few weeks worse than this to be deprived of my sole coping mechanism (running for very, very, very long periods of time)

Softbank was among the handful of venture funds that declined to comment on whether it had any involvement with Epstein back when I asked in 2019, yet is named explicitly in the below email www.businessinsider.com/top-silicon-...

not the clearest evening in northwest washington but aurora borealis still visible

I was staying in Nederland, Colo., when the shopping center burned to the ground. I evacuated my hotel and watched the flames reach towards the early morning sky. It wasn’t my first evacuation, and despite what folks in my new town think, it won’t be my last meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/burn-piles

I was staying in Nederland, Colo., when the shopping center burned to the ground. I evacuated my hotel and watched the flames reach towards the early morning sky. It wasn’t my first evacuation, and despite what folks in my new town think, it won’t be my last meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/burn-piles

It’s easy to be scared of the dark. It is full of unknowns, full of potential threats. But when the horrors are playing out in broad daylight, embracing the darkness becomes a lot more appealing. meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/under-the-...

When times are strange, there’s something comforting about living strangely with time. On learning from the past as we confront the future we’ve brought upon ourselves while remaining grounded in the present meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/living-in-...

survived my first PNW spider season and lived to write about it (and also the importance of building when things feel impossible and the battles are always uphill, in case that feels as relevant to you as it does to me) meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/how-to-bui...

my very small town has over 100 people out today, including an inflatable chicken and inflatable pig small town protests rule

I saw my first wolf a few summers ago in Alaska, and I think of it every time my therapist refers to me as a “lone wolf,” which is basically every other week. Turns out, wolves (and humans) aren’t meant to do life solo. Who knew? meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/pack-animals

Oh no, she’s being vulnerable and earnest on the internet again This week’s essay is about growth, performance, and my mother Enjoy meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/dear-diary

i’ve had a working theory that the second verse on the smallest man who ever lived from ttpd was one long dick joke and when i say this is the most vindicated I’ve felt in a long time!!! anyway, wood is a bop and im happy for both of them

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

😭 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

"CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss" is the exact same deal as "Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth"

Oh, how I’ve missed autumn. I realized how quickly I settled in to the season’s insistence to slow down, to notice, to be present. The leaves are golden, the air is cool, the world feels dire, I’m burned out again. But, I’m here meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/autumns-ep...

Hello burnout my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/a-sturdy-t...

Social media has rotted our brains, our reality, and our relationships. I’m truly unsure of where we go from here, but I do know I want out of this hellscape meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/passive-vo...

Despite what the calendar says, it is still summer in the high country. Hot and smoky under a blistering sun. Summer takes all that she can get, but it’s up to us to ensure she can’t take it all meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/endless-su...

How can someone hold joy at the same time as big, existential dread? Are personal victories and new relationships worth celebrating in the face of so much suffering? I don’t have any of the answers, but here’s my best attempt so far meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/finding-jo...

How do you get something — a place, a hobby, rock climbing — to finally click? I think I figured out the answer meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/try-hard

👀 makes the DOE response I recently got from a request I filed several years ago at a job I no longer work at interesting

I took my brother on his first backpacking trip earlier this week to celebrate his birthday. His idea! But when he kept saying how he’d been humbled by the hiking, I thought back to my own early experiences outdoors and what’s keeps me coming back meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/big-sky-fe...

spent this week touching rocks, highly recommend

my address may say washington but gd if i don’t love california

the blueberry wanter has logged on

One of Thiel’s other firms, Founders Fund, declined to comment after multiple attempts back in 2019 as to whether it had accepted money from Epstein or his affiliates. From my previous reporting www.businessinsider.com/top-silicon-...

/7 Anyway, when people sit and watch the lawless bigoted atrocities of this administration and smirk at me and say it’s a foolish fear, I increasingly question whether their dismissal is sincere or whether they’d actually be fine with my kids being deported.

My three kids, born in South Korea and China, became U.S. citizens upon adoption under the Child Citizen Act of 2000. Because of increasingly obscure differences in adoption from different countries the two older kids, from South Korea, also went through a citizenship acknowledgement process./1

If you are adopted and unsure about your access to original birth certificates, this is a resource I’ve previously used (with support from the since shuttered ALMA Society) to gain access in a state with limitations www.americanadoptions.com/blog/birth-c...

I wrote about the massive federal lands sale tucked in the Senate budget proposal and what we lose when we strive only to optimize the land, the country, and ourselves meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/tooth-and-...

Leaving this here.

Humans are exceptional at instant destruction, but nature gives us a pathway towards resilience, recovery, and community. Something that’s been on my mind lately, for no reason at all meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/what-will-...

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

They want us uneducated, broke and desperate because they think it will make us easier to control but that's a misreading of history. It means we have nothing to lose.

WA Department of Natural Resources pays a contracted vendor roughly $1 million a year for 21 cameras positioned around the state, the footage they record is not accessible to the public. That’s an oversight that must be corrected. @seattletimes.com editorial:

How do you ground yourself without a place to call home? How do you ground yourself when a place you love is on fire and the city feels claustrophobic? What do you do? Asking for me. meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/wherever-y...

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, but I’m sadly not surprised by what we do know. Hate has no home in the Basin or elsewhere, and I refuse to cede to those who think otherwise meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/hate-rose-...

One dead in bombing at an IVF clinic in Palm Springs. thepalmspringspost.com/one-dead-aft...

We all need a little more empathy and a whole lot less envy, if you ask me This week’s essay on roots, community, and what we gain from the taking in the whole picture open.substack.com/pub/meganher...

this is how you do “Why it matters:” www.buzzfeed.com/victoriavoul...

The Hi-Desert Dispatch is now Nurtured by Nature! The change coincides with my move out of Joshua Tree to Washington state, but the writing (and the writer!) won’t change a bit! Here’s more about the changes and what you can expect from me going forward meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/welcome-home

My last weekend in the desert is, understandably, an emotional one meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/with-love

I have a love-hate relationship with moving, home, and finding my place in the world, something that I think happens when you continually end up in places not meant for you meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/a-sense-of...

Some ~personal~ news on the stack this week meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/the-plants...

I’m feeling the chaos, the despair, the rage, the disbelief, and the terror in my bones. Where are you feeling it? meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/i-feel-it-...

Something particularly odd happens when the topic you’ve dedicated most of your early career to takes over the U.S. government and begins a coup, the people you’ve spoken with for years now firmly planted in a corrupt administration meganhernbroth.substack.com/p/powers-bla...

Intersection Rock in Joshua Tree National Park this morning

I often think about how the egg prices at the farmers market have not changed at all. weird!