Published in June 2023

In many parts of the country, June means summer vacation. But here in Seattle, kids go to school right up to the end of June. It’s a pretty busy month for me too.

Earth911

Wearing Synthetic Fabrics More Sustainably

Finding a More Sustainable Tipple

Are Garbage Disposals Bad for the Environment?

All-Natural Performance Wear

The Environmental Impact of Exotic Pets

Shopping for Clean Jeans

Understanding the 30×30 Conservation Target

Making the Seas Safer for Sharks

Reprints

Don’t Preserve Formaldehyde in Your Home

Flame Retardants: Toxicity in the Name of Safety

Home “Eco”nomics – Green Choices That Always Make Sense

Steering Clear of Mercury Hazards

Direct Trade Takes Consumers to the Source

Recycling Quandary: What to Do About Labels on Plastic?

Equal Exchange Does Democratic Business

The State of the Tropics Matters Wherever You Live

Home Remedies: Indoor Air Quality

How to Be Cautious About Cadmium Exposure

ParentMap

Drag Story Time

Reprints

The Best LGBTQ+ Movies and TV Shows for Families

Cheap Summer Movies: Bargain Family Films Around Seattle

One-of-a-Kind Vacation Rentals for Seattle-Area Families

Seattle Times

Taproot Theatre takes on story of American women who helped win WWI

Seattle Opera: The true story of a teenage girl jailed for truancy

WWMG

What Causes High Cholesterol and How to Prevent It

Crooked Road Blog

Besides the May round up of publications, I made one blog post in June: K-drama Loves Adopted Boys. K-drama posts seem to perform very well, although this one didn’t show up in my top five. I’m curious to see if that is because there was only a bit more than a week left in the month when I posted it, or if people really only care about the particular tropes listed below.

Popular Posts

Amnesia

Secret Childhood Connection

Ballet in Music Videos

Drunken Piggyback Ride

Growth of the Soil

Sometimes I wonder if these lists are a self-fulfilling prophecy. Do they keep showing up on my most popular list because my most popular lists keep driving people to them? As an experiment, here is a post that didn’t make the top five in June: My Year in Books.

For the record, I don’t think that’s really what is happening, because the same posts also show up so frequently in the search terms data.

Search Terms

The most used search terms were:

combinations of amnesia and kdrama (3 of the top 10)

uniqlo airism mask

ballet music

childhood connection kdrama

gemma alexander

The most interesting search terms were:

here lies lester moore

aurlandsvangen

And that’s June in the books.