The Green Pen is Back!

…an evolutionary perspective on these revolutionary times, plus a little whimsy

The Green Pen is back! Its ink began flowing over 20 years ago, kept going for several years, then drained to dry. Nevertheless, the revolutionary times have continued apace, indeed have been clearly accelerating toward…well, toward what? Not doom or the end of the world, necessarily, but headlong into the already collapsing “world as we know it.” The pressure has been building within me, for my own sanity if nothing else, to cast the chaos into a larger context. And that little green pen called to me to refill it so it could again spout out about “an evolutionary perspective.” Thus, I have recrafted and reconstituted The Green Pen on a new platform, Substack, which offers a suitable spouting soapbox.

I began The Green Pen over 20 years ago. In 2011, as I was moving it from one platform to another, I clumsily lost those early posts. Oh, well. Maybe there is an early reader somewhere who saved them (as if!), or they will somehow someday turn up in an archaeological digital dig. Anyway, as I scan back over the 90 plus posts I’ve made since 2011, it’s clear that many of them are still pertinent today. So, in the coming weeks, I will be resurrecting them into The Green Pen’s reincarnation along with new posts that arise and demand spouting as these “revolutionary times” continue to roll out.

Feel free to subscribe! It’s free, and you’ll get email notifications of new posts. Or just come to The Green Pen itself from time to time to discover what’s new, peruse past posts, and, via comments, be a part of the conversation. And be sure to click on About the Green Pen in the navigation bar to find out why I call it that.

And, so, here we go!