Plastic Childhood?

I didn’t intend to throw a kids party with no Plastic. Yet, it removed the veil of petroleum and it was a clear day of joy.  Children’s parties have become events about things: gifts, juice boxes, “sharing” which is another word for not grabbing the gift you can’t have, and arguing with the children to [...]

Are toxins pretty? Or, how Captain Moore must have thought I was Insane.

A year ago I heard Captain Charles Moore speak at Google about his expeditions in the sea, and the growing pollution of plastic killing the water (and all that lives in it – including us).

Then, I made a horrible faux paux: I said the plastic was pretty.