My cousin Anita, who was also my closest childhood companion, passed away in 2015 from ovarian cancer at the age of 54. Hardly a day passes when I don’t think of her and miss her. We spent countless hours playing with Barbie and her friends at each other’s houses which were both adjacent to my grandparent’s farm. If she were still alive, we’d no doubt be seeing “Barbie,” the movie, […]
With the daily news replete with all manner of climate disasters of Biblical proportions—forest fires, floods, droughts, storms, melting glaciers, record heat and cold—it’s easy to feel hopeless about global climate change. What can I do to make a hill of beans worth of difference? In fact, there is one significant action many of us can take that can truly reduce our consumption of fossil fuels: Go solar. And now […]
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