July 4…Independence Day…for me today is a day when I remember the dream of America, take stock of where we are in realizing that dream, mourn our shortcomings and hope that in the years to come, we will do more to realize the dream. Once there was a dream…
My Father Died…
My father David Cooper died April 4, 2018 of Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis, which he got from being in downtown Manhattan in the hours, days and weeks following the disaster of 9-11. My dad would remember the hours after, the sky full of white particles, falling like snow, building materials from…
The 2-Week No Single-Use Plastic Challenge
I was really shaken by the movie “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” I knew things were bad, I did not realize they were this bad. Not only is climate change going to get us, but we’re all going to drown in plastic. The tons and tons of plastic…