S.L. Pritchard

     This essay is about the commitment I am making to become a better, more informed consumer. In the process of getting to know social media, specifically Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, I’ve become aware of the environmental issues that are most stridently pushed forward by both the industries that benefit from consumer awareness to those topics, and the startling fact of how terribly ignorant I am of those matters.     Here’s a list of things I’ve learned, and that guide me, when making some of my decisions as a consumer: 1)    Planting trees & seeds that will help the problems we’re seeing in the natural world. We’ve got to help the birds & bees & butterflies, not because it’s pretty or hippie-dippie or looks good on a bumper sticker. We’ve got to do it because the natural world is where we get air and food and water. If we don’t try to make an improvement, it will be asthma/emphysema everywhere, less food at affordable prices, and foul water that will make us w

     At the risk of being blasphemous and possibly being struck by lightening in my tiny, ill-lit, ill-ventilated 386 square foot apartment, I will start out my blog with the above title.*       I've written and notarized my will, so I should be good to go. [Insert laugh here]      I've been planning on doing this for about a year now, but a very recent comment on yet another comment of mine in a FaceBook thread about the very recent demise of a purple rock star, spurred me to take the plunge and start this writing behavior. What the commentor about my comments about Prince who has been much commented on since he did his disappearing act in the elevator of Paisley Park Studios, what was said was, " Your words were beautiful and touched my soul. " What I heard in my head was, " You're an incredibly talented wordsmith and you should drop everything and write, write, write about anything, everything, about the breakfast you had this morning, about how y