Yearly Archives: 2015

Everything alive today has one common ancestor. All plants, all animals, all microbes, share a great great great (going back 3 billion years) grandparent. All things everywhere are my distant cousins. Is this what is meant by Mother Earth? Read about Last universal common ancestor (LUCA). I’m going back to […]

What is Mother Earth?

When I was in 2nd grade, in 1991, our teacher showed us a film about a girl from the year 2050. Her grandmother, telling her about how the world used to be, said, “There was no recycling, no clean energy, cars ran on non-renewable fossil fuels, and there were coal […]

Earth is on loan

Last night, it was very cold outside, and a homeless man who looked like Jim Morrison came to the door. He was being chased by some rabid raccoons, but I wouldn’t let him in. I had a decorative scarecrow hanging on the door, and he asked if he could have […]

Jim Morrison?