Day: May 14, 2016

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#weekendcoffeeshare: 5/14/16

Posted on by R.M. Carlson

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I’m not a coffee drinker, but I would serve the rest of you the coffee that you enjoy while I enjoy my cup of tea. I welcome you to my home and we would enjoy sitting around my table, rehashing our week. I have a writing problem to share with you.

I am currently writing two articles for publication in magazines. One is coming together nicely. The other…..not so much. I am having difficulty finding a second source to interview for the article. I am looking for a female entrepreneur who started a business when she was over 50 years old. I would like to hear whether or not she felt like she faced discrimination with regard to issues like obtaining financing for her business. Do you know of anyone who fits this description? If you do, I would love to hear about her.

I should get back to work. Thanks for coming and having coffee with me at our #weekendcoffeeshare. See you next weekend!

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Book Review: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Posted on by R.M. Carlson

I just finished reading a book that I have to tell you about. It is a 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner and I can see why. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert, is a quiet storytelling of possibly the last extinction the Earth will know. Anyone interested in the environment, climate change, history, geography, or just the world in general will likely find this book interesting.

Even our children, in their fascination with dinosaurs, study mass extinction events; specifically, the asteroid event that wiped them out. There have been other mass extinction events in the last billion or so years. The premise of Kolbert’s book is that the sixth extinction event may be the last.

I don’t want to ruin the book for you. It is a wonderful, well-researched, very readable account of the Earth in terms of the environment. Kolbert draws on the work of geologists, botanists, climatologists, biologists, historians, geographers, and more and pulls it all together. It is a five-star read, in the opinion of this writer. #Elizabeth Kolbert