Okay. We’re closing in on the end of the year. Which is the first year I’ve had this blog. Which I started in large part because I wanted a place to be able to talk about my writing (and my garden). You’ve seen my garden, so now, the least I can do is tell you how my writing’s gone this year. The short answer is: Not as great as I was hoping. But, I didn’t do nothing. So, I’ll give…
Okay, so ordinarily outreach astronomy isn’t my jam. I just really don’t have a bent toward teaching, though I am ever grateful for all those out there who do. But this recent Annular Eclipse had an interesting confluence of events for me that made me realize again that, of all of the sciences, I’m grateful my path took me to Astronomy. I do think that Astronomy is super great. It’s also a lot more accessible than you might expect, both…
So! Did you catch that? I just published a short story (technically, at just over 10,000 words, some people would call ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’ a novelette – but I’m not sure I’m ready to consider myself quite that fancy). Now, you might be asking: Published? Where? Answer: Here. On my blog. This really does count as publishing. Merriam-Webster defines ‘publish’ as “to disseminate to the public” (and it defines ‘disseminate’ as “to spread…
Here is my first-ever blog post! It is going to be a very short post, because I am slow when it comes to learning and doing new things, and WordPress is definitely a new thing for me, and it is getting late…but I really want to get my first post posted today (January 1st) and not tomorrow! Last year, after the Marshall fire, my unofficial New Year’s resolution was that I wanted to finally start the blog I’d been thinking…