Alex Loorz is a passionate and articulate speaker. He’s also 16 years old, with a resume of activism and community organization that indicates he’s a force to be reckoned with. I first heard Alex speak in October of last year. He told an audience of about 3,000 how he dreamed of a march on May 8, 2011 – the iMatter March – that would engage millions of youth around the world on the issue of climate change.
Let me remove my rose-colored glasses and My Name Is…Pollyanna sticker for just a moment while I try to restore my heart rate and blood pressure to normal....
“I’d like to join your group,” the woman said to me conspiratorially, “but I don’t want to work with a bunch of angry environmentalists.” I stifled a laugh...
My youngest daughter loves a bubble bath. Unfortunately, she has a mother who refuses to let her soak in sodium lauryl sulphate, a known irritant and poten...
I just returned from the vet where I had a 13-year-old cat put down. Buster was his name and he was, quite simply, the most loving cat I’ve ever known. Un...
I confess I loved Barbie. LOVED her. And all her friends – mod-hair Ken (though I never did understand the appeal of stick-on facial hair), little sister S...
To say I have a family of animal lovers is to say that the Dalai Lama is a pretty nice guy. For the most part, the animals we love are of the domestic vari...
My kids are screwed. It’s a shame, really. They’re awesome kids, all three of them. Smart. Funny. Compassionate. Creative. Unfortunately, they have me as t...
November makes me grumpy. Halloween’s sugar-induced high leaves me crashing like a crack addict. The steady rain and snow ensures that my bike stays put…an...
I, for one, have had it up to here (picture my feverish forehead!) with all the H1N1 Swine Flu hysteria. If I receive one more e-mail, one more Tweet , one m...
