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 …
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Beauty And Peril Of The Past
The first school I knew was a world apart, like other old places, and all the wood and stone kept its smell and coldness no matter how often washed. It was an old Catholic school, once a college but now served grades one through six. Too vast a space for such small students. Our wooden …
What Does Gender Have To Do With It?
I consider myself lucky. In fact, I consider myself luckier than most. I have a good job, a beautiful home, a pretty great wife, and two amazing sons. When I met Kelly, I never thought we would be married. I am older than she is, and I was also married at the time. But, let’s …
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. …
Blog – The Warming Earth: What Is The Greenhouse Effect
When someone is explaining global warming, he might mention a pot of water on a stove, which some frogs have jumped in. Frogs, the writer asserts, don’t realize the heat is rising until it’s too late and they are boiled alive. If they’d only had the sense to jump out of the pot! We are …
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Don’t chase happiness. Enjoy your life.
I listened to my father because I loved him and was taught to respect him. So for those reasons alone, I followed his advice. “Happiness is out there waiting for you, work hard, take no prisoners and take what is yours!” I believed him, and did exactly what he said. I pushed – hard – …
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 …
Good Wins Over Evil: The Sad Tale Of Rumplestiltskin, The Unfortunate Subcontractor
She’s a good princess from the top of her golden head to the tips of her tiny, do-gooding shoes. Everyone says so. Her company sells the best and sweetest-smelling straw you could want to bed out a horse stall with, and the crisp grasses it comes from are grown by the nicest farmers with red …
More than a Pretty Face
Why me? Why me? The same two words keep going through my head over and over again. Why am I always stuck doing all of the chores around here? Those other two get to do anything they want. I feel like I am being punished for something. It all started when my Dad died. That …
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 …