Published in July 2020

The kids were home for summer in July, which wasn’t any different from the previous four months, except that I didn’t have to supervise them as closely. Time doesn’t work like it used to, but deadlines still do. For your reading pleasure, here are links to everything I wrote that published in July.

Earth911

Most of my July publications were on the Earth911 website.

Combatting Desertification

Chickenomics

The Population Problem

The State of Producer Responsibility in the United States

What is Environmental Justice?

I started a Home “Eco”nomics series about the trade-offs to consider when making sustainability decisions at home.

Things That Always Make Sense

Should You Buy a New Car?

Should You Buy New Appliances?

And they republished my Summer Reading: Dig Into the Roots of Environmental Nonfiction list.

ParentMap

After a cornucopia of bylines in ParentMap in June, I only published one story there in July. But it was a doozy: The Future of Education.

Seattle Times

I used to say I write at the intersection of arts and family. These days, everything has to have a pandemic angle. Fortunately, there are some stories that combine arts, family, and pandemic. Exhibit A: the Corona Showcase.

Crooked Road

The downward trend in posting continues as I spend more time exercising and managing kids, but strangely, this month it didn’t affect traffic. In fact, most of my blog metrics improved in June. The most popular posts were:

Seattle Dance Collective Bridges the Distance with Home – my review of the first piece in SDC’s virtual summer program.

Seattle Dance Collective Produces a Headlamp or Two – my review of the third piece in SDC’s virtual summer program.

Seattle Dance Collective Continues with The Only Thing You See Now – my review of the second piece in SDC’s virtual summer program.

Because I’ve Read Assata – People are still interested in learning more about racism, and Assata’s biography is a must-read.

Out With a Bang and a Whisper – School doesn’t end until very in June here in Seattle, so my end of the school year post was still pretty fresh in July.

Search Terms

According to Google Analytics, organic search drives more than half of the traffic here on the Crooked Road. But the main reason I look at the search terms that bring people here is that I find them interesting. This month’s top searches were:

article 1 section 2.3 – When I searched my site, I got the “State of the Union Clause.” But that’s actually Article 2, Section 3.1.

sailor moon le mouvement final – Well, yes I did take my kids to see this movie a couple years ago.

article i, section 2.3 – Same query, different format. Probably because they didn’t get what they wanted the first time. I actually wrote two posts on Article 1, Section 2.3. The first dealt with the apportionment of taxes and representation and the infamous 3/5 compromise. The second was a fairly dry description of the actual enumeration they started with for the first Congress.

bruno roque – He choreographed the final piece in SDC’s summer program, but I didn’t blog about that until August. But he also choreographed for their program last year, which I did write about.

elena gabouri – I heard her sing Azucena in Il Trovatore last year.