Who can doubt that we face many problems and ecological challenges from global warming, pollution, food production, species extinction and more on a planet with finite resources? Yet, as ecology works, all the systems are interconnected from the smallest microorganism to the largest plastic manufacturing plant. Eco fiction is a…

Who doesn’t have a daughter, sister or know a young teenage girl who seems attached to her cell phone, but who is really on the leash? Who is leading whom? There is no doubt that adolescence is a time of identity formation, social comparison, and mental development, but what happens…

Making a decision about any thing can be a complicated process...from positives to negatives to neutrals in stages. The lesson worked even beter in a classroom of middle grade students to respect a variety of opinions...no dopamine allowed. Can't do this with Google search. Sadly, technology has eliminated the process of rational, multi-step thinking particularly with teenagers' vulnerable developing brains.

How true, we write about easy stuff that bores the readers. Need that sizzle to add a sparkle to the reader's mundane life, too. Excellent article

I would rather be buried beside the book I wrote than die with book still inside me. There is no passion to write for criticism, but the "fire in the belly" that demands your story about life to be heard. Inspiring narrative.

The human body is 70% water perhaps surviving for 3 days but not much longer. Everybody needs to have equal rights to water and not allow corporations to profit without regulations. Unbelievable to think about droughts around the world amd in Amerca's midwest.

Powerful essay about living in an Instagram world. Research studies and investigations will continue to confirm this reality as a generation of teen girls and boys are wasted away in false obsessions. But will anything change...I sadly doubt it. The Kardashian-Instagram marketplace is too lucrative not to stop sacrificing young people.

Looks like a total curriculum for the new world minus the dinosaurs. Will gladly share with interested people.

Great essay and cooking analogy. As a retired teacher, I hope I have instilled individuality into every student to be proud and creative for themselves.