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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Taxman
Let me tell you how it will be There’s one for you, nineteen for me ‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m [...]
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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 [...]
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