The month of March turned our world upside-down, didn’t it? Self-isolating became the way of life we never imagined would happen to us. Despite having been shopping only once all month–before the country went into shut-down–I managed to accumulate about the same amount of single-use plastic trash as always. And it continues to be food…
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Do something drastic – cut the plastic!
Inspired by Susan Freinkel’s book Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, I’ve set a goal to reduce the amount of single-use plastic I bring into my life in 2020. Here’s my collection for the first month of the year. That’s a bag full of food packaging at the top. In fact, you’ll see that most of it…
Just In Case : Twenty-One Bite-Sized Stories
I think I’ve found the Basho of fiction. Laura McHale Holland is the author of Just In Case : Twenty-One Bite-Sized Stories, and every single entry in this anthology is a flash masterpiece. The title story is fully-formed in under 60 words, and packs a punch that entire novels often fail to deliver. Yes, of…
You, too?
When #MeToo went viral, Janet Gurtler was among the millions of people who began to reflect on her past experiences. Things she had reluctantly accepted—male classmates groping her at recess, harassment at work—came back to her in startling clarity. She needed teens to know what she had not: that no young person should be subject…