Jackie held the syringe of yellow-brown poison up to the always-buzzing fluorescent lights in the secret laboratory, examining it carefully, and thought about what to do next. What they did to the animals in the lab was a crime against nature, she thought, reasoning that her long years of study at the University’s School of …
Author Archives: Mike Whalen
Content Repurposing – Blog to Twitter
I wrote a blog post titled Why Do We Pollute The Earth? Below, I am repurposing the content of the post for Twitter. This took quite a bit of editing to reduce the length and increase the focus. WHY DON’T WE ACT AND SAVE THE PLANET? We have heat waves, flooding from rising seas. …
Jackie and the Magic Eggs
Jackie held the syringe of yellow-brown poison up to the always-buzzing fluorescent lights in the secret laboratory, examining it carefully, and thought about what she would do next. What they did to these animals here was a crime against nature, she thought, reasoning that her long years of study at the University’s School of MicroBiology …
Why Do We Pollute The Earth?
Global Warming. Extreme Heat Waves. Rising Seas. Every week we hear about the consequences of our actions and ongoing inaction. Why don’t we act and save the Planet? Here are some answers to “Why do we pollute the Earth?”; with examples a 6 year old can understand. Difficulty. Harder to clean up. It takes more …
Hey Grandma
Hi, Grandma!! So hello!! How are you? Here I am finally at school, thank you for all your help to get me here. What you did for me is fantastic and I will never forget it, I hope you know. Well, the first few weeks here have been just crazy! I have three roommates, and …
45 Seconds
When the buzzer sounded, June realized she had about 45 seconds to take action before her marriage was over. And despite being thoroughly bored, she felt too emotionally lazy to start over. Life was NOT great but it was comfortable and despite Henry, her husband, being utterly boring and always doing the same routine over …
A Tree Falls.
There is a philosophical saying “if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?” Well I feel some interactions between partners can be similar, with similar consequences. “If our intent is not understood to be loving when we feel we act in that manner, the gap between …