Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt
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Earth Day 2019: The Notre Dame Fire
This Earth Day, let’s keep in mind that our actions today can improve our health and well-being tomorrow, provide a brighter [...]
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Pollution
In 1965, Tom Lehrer recorded the song “Pollution,” purporting to give advice to a foreign traveler visiting the [...]
Earth Day Embarrassment
Earth Day was thought up by Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson when he, along with many Americans, became outraged by a 1969 oil [...]
When I first heard that the earth was in trouble
On my first day as a Stanford University student in the fall of 1968, the sun was intense in a cloudless sky, and I was [...]
Mother
Mother Once a Native American man told me that if you lie face down with head pointed north and feet pointed south the earth [...]
At Our Peril
Climate change is real, pervasive, and all but overwhelms me when I think about it. Every day there is some new, shocking [...]
Stories from the Previous Prompt
Taxes
The Taxman Cometh
From my father, I inherited the importance of honesty and fairness regarding taxes.
I’m Game, You?
“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust man less on the same amount of income”. Said by [...]
Other Recent Stories
Of Shoes–and Ships–and Sealing Wax
I eat my peas with honey,
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on my knife. --Gelett [...]
Prompted By Poetry
Missing Out on Aruba
Spring break on Aruba? Oh yeah! There was only one problem.
Prompted By Spring Break
shopping
(everything you buy in your session supports Retrospect)