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…

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.

Brilliant writing and thinking about penguins, perceptions and people's postulations at 66% average. Beautiful AI picture of a penguin, but something bothers me about its perfection.

What is the purpose of homework...to practise math facts, review for a test, do more research without input, waste time when watching TV is in the next room? The world has changed when a cellphone has the luxury of finding answers and a calculator knows long division and fractions.

“A little learning is a dangerous thing: drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” Alexander Pope The Pierian spring in Macedonia was sacred to the muses so in order to taste the Pierian spring the critics needed…

Must say, I never thought of Chat GPT as my writing coach. He knows everything but can he share or provide feelings?

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” Marcus Aurelius — The harvest moon hangs a button on the universe, The silent mist lingers fleecing early essence of peaceful Permutations while cows graze for later mastication; Lassitude of nature hooted by an owl returned from the hunt; Leaves of trees burnished shivering before frost’s revenge;

George Carlin is not a scientist, politician or environmentalist so I'll have a good laugh and read more research over 20 years.