An Open Letter to the Library On My Electric Car
Good day (Pikes Peak Library District pooh-bah), I’m Tom Preble, that guy with the Leaf electric car that had been plugging in on 1Kwh /120 volt trickle charge at your Falcon branch – High Prairie, whilst using the facility. First, do understand that I had asked permission for open-ended trickle charging. Permission had been granted
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Helicopter Parents Are Damaging America’s Future
“Helicopter parenting” happens when mostly Baby Boomer mothers and fathers become overly involved in every aspect of their children’s lives. Among other things, helicopter parents contact their child’s bosses, teachers, coaches, and any other adult influence in the child’s life and intervene on the child’s behalf. Researchers have been watching this phenomenon grow like a malignant tumor over the past
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Katrina’s Trees, 2005
The day out my window is drained of hue, washed grey with an arch of clouds carrying the embryo of a storm and a summons to the season that fills me with equal parts longing and grief. Cottonwoods bend and breathe deep and ragged under the wind’s insistent touch. I cannot help wondering what they are saying.
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