Craig Maciolek

  • The imagination is like blowing soap bubbles. The bigger the bubble, the more skill and risk it takes to get the bubble to detach and float on its own. The trick is to know how to manage our environment well… Continue reading

  • Why Aren’t You Playing?

    (A Mother’s Day Dialogue.) A lioness walks up to one of her cubs, who is sitting off to the side of the others playing. “Why aren’t you playing with your siblings?” Continue reading

  • The Age Line

    I have come to find that there is an age line that can be seen in how a blog is designed. (An author designs their blog by how they envision their readers interacting with it.) Generally, people above this line… Continue reading

  • The Identity of Solutions

    To be young and immature is to react thoughtlessly to the environment. The older we get, the more capable we become at resisting this urge to react. Good in some ways, devastating in others.Our character is measured by how this… Continue reading

  • Human Carrying Capacity

    I have been thinking lately, about a college ecology class where we were given the final exam question at the beginning of the semester. It was, how would you measure the carrying capacity for the human race? Interestingly, a couple… Continue reading

  • Passive Aggressive Materialism

    Scene one: At a pub, having had a few drinks with a friend. You finish your drink and excuse yourself to use the restroom with a comment about having to leave. As it is you have stayed a little too… Continue reading