by Joanna Slodownik | Dec 16, 2023 | Animals, Blog, Children's Books
I felt honored and touched and full of wonder as I watched a family of 10+ majestic elephants walk gracefully across a dry riverbed in a Namibian desert. These creatures are rare and precious and absolutely amazing. These were definitely not THINGS or OBJECTS walking,...
by Joanna Slodownik | Oct 21, 2023 | Activism, Animals, Blog, Front
There are many reasons to feel despair, hopelessness, and powerlessness in today’s world. Wars, injustices, inequalities, diseases, sustainability issues, climate change, racism, speciecism, species extinction, and countless others. (I talk about some of them in my...
by Joanna Slodownik | Sep 15, 2023 | Animals, Books, Children's Books, Front
Finally! I just have to share this with you. (Pigs Are Awesome!) I finally published the updated, full color edition of a book that is very dear to my heart. It is the first book I wrote in the non-fiction for kids’ series about farm animals, and it was so much fun,...
by Joanna Slodownik | Nov 3, 2022 | Activism, Animals, Books, Rants, Traditions, vegan
As the holiday time is getting closer, I’m re-posting this piece, which I wrote a few years back. “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang is a story about the Earthly creatures we fail to hear. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking at times, but overall ends on a...
by Joanna Slodownik | Oct 9, 2022 | Activism, Animals, Blog, Front, vegan
It is vitally important that we set clear, specific and achievable goals, set a time horizon for their implementation, and then unite around these goals and focus our actions on putting them into practice. Change is happening, but not fast enough. We are not united,...
