Growing old forests

Northern Wisconsin was once covered with extensive old growth forests.

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Taking none for the team

People like myself who have an autoimmune disease have some of the strongest immune systems, but it does not make us healthy.

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Stop being so serious!

Growing up I understood that adults lived in a very different world than kids. While both adults and kids had responsibilities, they were different.

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Masks over ribbons

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that a pink ribbon is for breast cancer awareness.

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The state of women’s welfare in these divided states

Yet I never find where anyone else says what I am about to say: legal abortion is a consolation prize for women suffering under systemic oppression.

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Let’s price carbon now and let’s do it equitably

When I first started gardening in 1974, frost took the cold sensitive plants down the very first weekend in September.

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Are forests only commodities?

Everywhere we go we see the scars of logging in our county and state forests.

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I want to get involved, but…

It was sometime in 1988 when I became involved in my first organization outside of school.

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A letter to national legislators

Dear National Legislators, we know you fight for us, but we’re confused.

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Musings on higher education

The shortage of pharmacists in this country predates COVID, so no one should be lumping this shortage in with other worker shortages. The solution to this kind of shortage lies within education.

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