Here we already are in August, the month of crape myrtles in flamboyant pink/fuschia/deepred bloom, cicada music rising and falling in the heat, the Perseid meteor showers, family company and birthdays. It took the summer so long to get here, it's hard to believe it's almost over. Teaching summer classes made it all go by in a haze of lesson planning, paper reading, lots of iced coffee and not much fun.
I seem to have all but abandoned this journal, as well as my other AOL journals. Again, with teaching two summer intensives I only had time to blog at The Blue Voice. I hadn't thought it would be like this, that I'd have to make such a hard choice. Being part of a group presses my Responsibility button, and I have felt the need to keep my end up. I thought that readers who cared about the environment would come and read my posts at the Voice, but with only a couple of exceptions, that does not seem to have happened. If you are reading this, but not coming to TBV and reading my posts, I'd love to have you explain why - what is keeping you away? We have a new format, the posts are no longer strung out to their full size on the front page - you don't have to plow through the entire length of posts you may not care to read (though of course I would hope you'd want to read them all!) to find one you are interested in.
Anyway, there are several series I have done there that I want to link to, make it easy for AOL readers to just come read those entries - because they are things that I think are important. I will begin with the two Exxon entries, fervently hoping that I have not completely lost those readers who used to come here for environmental news.
