Tag: Change

As the seasons change, vibrant and complex color palettes emerge on runways, fill closets, and define new collections. Each season brings a new set of hues that establishes a tone for fashion and dictate the trends of the moment. Typical Spring/Summer collections and wardrobes showcase bright colors...

I know I’ve talked about it before here on Medium, but it’s such an interesting topic I had to write about it once again. So, let's get started and talk about some famous stoics. It's a philosophy that dates back to ancient Greece and Rome, with an emphasis on rational...

In my former career, I often said “I tell selective truths for a living.” How cute and clever. In reality, I worked in public relations. You could say I talked for a living. People said I had a silver tongue and could persuade any skeptic. My view is that I’d become so con...

Every once and awhile, when I write about my experience in the 2018 Camp Fire, someone on the Internet thinks they can outsmart me by asking how I know the fire was “caused” by climate change, usually in a snarky, know-it-all, condescending tone. It’s a typical denier tactic. &l...

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has emerged as a powerful and transformative force in contemporary discourse, advocating for the recognition of the inherent value and dignity of Black lives. This paper explores the origins, goals, and impact of the BLM movement, emphasizing its role in address...

Teaching with a lens of equity means rewiring and interrupting the socialization cycles we have all been continuously immersed in as a result of our society. We must rewire our brains around how we think, speak, and instruct our students and human beings. It means creating the counternarrative aroun...

Risk 1: Food Prices Will Keep Going Up For many years, environmentalists have decried the impact of climate change on “ecosystems,” which at least in my mind, always conjured things like tree species under stress or disappearing butterflies. I could get quite emotional about the baby ...

I’m on the brink of retirement. So are a lot of baby boomers. We built our nest eggs in IRAs, we plan to have social security, and we downsize our lifestyle to live decently. Everything is looking good… except, it isn’t good. Climate change is destroying the economy and the invest...