We drove a very long 9 hours yesterday from the Bay Area to Newport Beach, via SLO to pick up our daughter, and had to travel through Ventura County and Thousand Oaks which have just suffered not one, but two devastating events: a gun massacre killing 12 people and then a fire the next day,…
Tag: Climate Change
Looking for Time in all the wrong places: thoughts on my blogging life.
Tuesday 5:30 AM: I feel like a country western song — you know, the one about not finding what you’re looking for — or the one about losing what you had? I don’t even know the right words for the picking of guitar strings, but I can hear the sound in my ears as I…
Dealing with the overwhelm: What choice do we have?
I spent the day yesterday in an all-day training for our newly adopted curriculum and my brain is still tired. I don’t think it’s from the training (which is huge and overwhelming and exciting all at once). I think it’s just more of a world that’s gotten so small that everything lands at my back…
Let’s Talk Climate Change: Up Close and Personal (Write Every Day #9)
Le’ts talk climate change. The evidence can be seen in my backyard. The tragedy of the pines is a little like the canary in the goldmine. Five years ago, my husband and I bought a tiny cabin in the woods of Amador County, in California. The forest was the selling point because the house was…
Barbara Ganias Comstock 