Ode to Dolly is published again & more news

An Update on the Poem  "An Ode to Dolly"

I have posted the poem "An Ode to Dolly  Re: Global Warming" in 2 blogs, a webpage and elsewhere in the past. It got noticed! It is published in a textbook. (Keep reading below the credits  for details.)

• (Blogs: Valerie's Memos & Valerie's Soapbox; Webpage: VCCTI, an extremely outdated and practically unusable website that I have not had time to update. Give me time. I still have plans for it.)
• I have used this photo in past posts of the poem. This photo of a sheep and her lamb is NOT Dolly, but is from Fotolia [© foto.fritz - FOTOLIA
  fotolia_397073 sheep with lamb and full wool coat.jpg] Get more from this photographer.schaf 7 © foto.fritz  

I offer the first 2 lines as a teaser of "An Ode to Dolly."

Dolly had a little lamb.

It came the natural way.

Valerie Coskrey (c)2006.

Back in 2012 or 2013, I received a request to allow the use of the poem in an educational workshop and a textbook. I gave Pearson permission to use the poem, retaining the copyright. I had them donate to RFF in lieu of payment, which they did. Now I learn that the textbook has been reissued.

This poem is included in Pearson's educational text that was just republished in 2019.

Read to Achieve: Gateway to Academic Reading
By David Rothman, Jilani Warsi
Published by Pearson
Copyright © 2013
Published Date: Jun 21, 2019

http://www.mypearsonstore.com/bookstore/read-to-achieve-gateway-to-academic-reading-9780205578061?xid=PSED

The link shows the book and its table of contents. The poem is listed in Chapter 2. I checked Amazon.com and found used versions of the 2013 edition still for sell. So I bought one--a paperback.

 An Update on Coskrey Biz

An update on Coskrey Biz is is to be in an upcoming post. Hint: Editing is really keeping me busy, as is publishing. Stay in touch!!

New Series of Articles

What grows as fast as kudzu or spreads like ivy? Memes.

I started a new set of essays on memes and resources on my website vforteachers.com. Below are quotes from the first few articles in the series.

From the first article.

"We live our lives according to a script based in the lives of our parents," claimed 20th century psychologists. Breaking free of our parental script...

What results is a set of concepts that describes the world to me and that allows me to understand cause and effect and human interactions as well as any other typical citizen of my culture.

The concepts that influence my thinking have names; they can be verbalized. They are the memes...
Read more..

From the 2nd Article.

The American Heritage Dictionary, New College Edition, of 1980 does not have an entry for meme.

Today a Google search for meme brings up a count of 269 million sites in the search results.

Remember the Lycos internet search website commercials with the dog that fetched the information? With a few graphics and catch phrases, most everyone learned to go to Lycos.com to find information and stuff on the internet. More importantly, it taught us about search itself.

Read more.

The Crime Lab Project

What do tire treads, DNA strands and fingerprints have in common?

No, this time they are not the references to CSI, CSI Miami, or CSI New York. They are not even the reference to Bones or the Profiler. Nor are they a reference to the Science Channel or the History Channel or the Discovery Channel, although you can get great videos at . Or you can Shop at ShopPBS.org.

This time these memes are the images used to frame the pages of the The Crime Lab Project website.

This project is was formed with a vision of updated local crime labs reflecting the abilities and technologies of the forensics departments depicted in TV and movies. The website says it so much better:

• "What is the Crime Lab Project?
• 
  
• "A non-profit organization started by writers and producers, but now
• including many members of the general public, the Crime Lab Project works to increase awareness of the problems facing public forensic science agencies. We seek greater support and resources for crime labs, coroner and medical examiners' offices, and other public agencies using forensic science. We also seek support for forensic science education and research.
• 
  
• "Anyone may join the Crime Lab Project."

Of course there are links to lots of information, including a link to a Federal law on forensics labs and newspaper clippings on the current state of forensics labs in financially strapped communities.

I stumbled across the link to this site on the webpage of Sandra Parshall, mystery writer.

I stumbled on her page when I was exploring the sff net site (while exploring rff links) which claims "SFF Net is home to the most interesting authors, publishers, media pros, and consumers of genre fiction today. What interests you?" More about that site another day.

No, that's not rff as in Resources for the Future, but rff as in Reading for the Future, whose new site is here.