2017, Moonshots and Snowflakes
It’s Christmas, 2017. Since last Christmas we, as a nation, have been through and seen a lot. While not getting into specifics, I did not expect in my lifetime to […]
2017
Where did the last three months go?
August. It has been three months since I last wrote here on this little blog. So it’s been awhile. I haven’t been laying back, doing nothing. Master’s classes started. University […]
The Great American Eclipse: Part III — Totality
It has been five days now, just over 120 hours, since Totality slid across the United States of America. Since a Total Solar Eclipse travelled coast to coast from Oregon […]
The Great American Eclipse: Part II — The Trip
The best laid plans don’t always execute the way you envision them to. My younger daughter, who had been a hesitant yes to this journey ended up being a last […]
The Great American Eclipse: Part I – The Plan
This coming Monday, 21 August, the United States will see something that it hasn’t seen in nearly a century. A total solar eclipse will cross from coast to coast, entering […]
We Are Who We Are
This last weekend, the United States put on a horror show display of intolerance in Charlottesville, Virginia. White Supremacists and Nationalists protested, and when counter protesters started turning out, things […]
Fire and Fury, Silence and Peace
There are days when you just can’t get over the headlines. When you can’t ignore them, can’t look away. Can’t wash them out with a video of cute baby animals, […]
Back to School, For a Lifetime
Late last winter I started looking at opportunities to use the tuition assistance that the Air Guard provides. Despite some less than stellar undergrad transcripts, I applied to a couple […]
One Small Sentence, One Vital Task
“The search for life’s origins, evolution, distribution, and future in the universe.” One phrase, a small group of words forming a short sentence in a 58 page bill. Yet that […]
May 21st
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by […]