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• (Blogs: Valerie's Memos & Valerie's Soapbox; Webpage: VCCTI, an extremely outdated and practically unusable website that I have not had time to update.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!!

Coskrey Biz Business -- 8/21/75

NetworkShrub

 News from the NetworkShrub Members and Me

What a busy time these past few weeks have been.

Mertie's This and That

Mertie and I are busy networking with local antique dealers. Vic Penuel is coordinating the efforts. More on this later.

Meanwhile, Mertie has "new" items in her inventory. Check out the July and August postings I wrote for her blog and use its links to visit her Facebook page. It is like visiting the store--almost.

English Garden
Florist & Boutique
button in the
NetworkShrub
directory.
Links to website.

I have been blogging and developing webpages. Good thing, too, because my tutoring students have all taken summer breaks, although my network of tutor friends is growing.

The creative here is the Button for the English Garden Florist & Boutique in Brazoria, TX. This website should be completed by the middle of next week. It currently has 2 pages of the 4 loaded.

With school starting, my schedule is again undergoing drastic change. I still read a bit, do computer work at night, and manage to keep up with friends sporadically.

Gifts & Gadgets

The Gifts & Gadgets website is up and functioning. Cindy has a new student worker who will be taking over the blog, if she decides to continue it.  My best to her and my thanks for allowing me to assist her in adding to her online presence. I went shopping there last week. She has a new inventory of clothing in fall colors and plenty of scarves by Sarah's Smiles Shop.

Firebush at West Columbia Discovery Garden, TX,8/21/14
Photo ©Sam Stamport

Volunteering with the Discovery Garden

Sam Stamport and I, with the help of City Manager Debra Sutherland, completed the pages on the West Columbia city website for the Discovery Garden. I wrote 2 poems for it, which I put in Valerie's Soapbox, and Sam has now started a blog for the West Columbia Discovery Garden. I volunteered to do an online pamphlet for West Columbia. I will keep you posted.

 Taking care of Business--My own Websites

I am slowly adding pages to my own websites Coskrey Biz and Valerie Coskrey's Classroom Tools and Ideas. The latest set of pages added to VCCTI deal with using science fiction in the classroom.

Speaking of science fiction and the young reader, I have reactivated the RFF Reflections blog.

'Til next time. ~Valerie

A poem about cloning and global warming

(a science poem about the first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep clone, and the nature of the culture wars between religion and science)

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

An Ode to Dolly
Re: Global Warming

Dolly had a little lamb.
It came the natural way.
Now everything that Mary’s can
A clone can do today.

“To clone,” you say, ”is playing God.
‘Tis sacrilegious. Nay.
We’ll lose our Faith, you know we will,
If we use tech that way.”

But “He helps him who helps himself”
Encourages men to plan
The use of nature in wondrous ways
To accomplish all we can.

What matters most in this age
Of stress from hotter days,
Is saving genes that work for us
No matter what the ways.

By Valerie Coskrey © 2006


You may share this poem with others if you give me credit for it. It is copyrighted. Publication requires my permission, although I will most likely be happy to give it. If you wish to place it in your blog or website, please link-back to here or to http://www.vforteachers.com , and tell me in the comment that you did so, please.

This posting was modified 31Dec08. Originally posted in 2006.

Tags: Global Warming, sheep, clone, Dolly, sustainablity, poem, poetry, science poem, culture wars, religion vs science, science vs religion