Jessica Karl, Columnist

The Summer I Turned Into Plastic

There’s so much of the stuff in the environment that it’s only a matter of time before it takes over our brains. 

Head in the sand.

Photographer: creacart/iStockphoto

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Serious question: Has this newsletter gone downhill? Sometimes readers will send me feedback and say my daily missives are USELESS & POINTLESS (yes, Rosemary M., I do read your emails) but I take it in stride, since a lot of you say otherwise. Yet after reading Lara Williams’ latest column, I’m not so sure. Maybe my writing is getting worse! And maybe it’s because my brain is slowly but surely turning into a big ball of plastic: