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…
My husband is awesome.
If you find yourself nodding off in a talk about solar flare(s), know that it’s not the speaker’s fault. It’s the solar flare(s).
Remember: Just about any topic of scientific research can be made fascinating by the right speaker. Except solar flares. You’ve been warned.
Random lovely blessings: coworkers who grow gorgeous fancy flowers on the patio at work.
Well, that was traumatic. But – such is the life of an adventurer! – Hilda Okay, that’s kind of how the adventure ended, but let me back up. This year my daughter joined an outdoor club, and one of the planned summer activities was a 2-night backpacking trip in the Mt. Evans wilderness. This sounded like a good opportunity! I don’t spend as much time with my daughter as I’d like. And I don’t get out into the woods nearly…
I am 41 years old and I just figured out how to consistently open fruit cups without splattering. Hint – Tip the fruit cup so that the air bubble is in the same place as where you’re opening it from.
Warning: This post contains thoughts about a big, existential sort of topic, triggered, in part but not in total, by the recent devastating fires in Maui. At the moment, I am able to approach it with curiosity, but that’s certainly not always the case, and it might not be the case for you right now. If you don’t want to be thinking about climate change and other slow-moving disasters, and what some of the potential follow-on affects might be, even…
Okay, this has been driving me crazy. It’s “got another think coming.”
This is a Father’s Day post! because my dad is great! I’m not very good at writing about things that are really important to me in a good way – my words get extra stilted for some reason. But that’s not a good reason not to tell you that my dad is great, and important to me, and I’m really proud to be his daughter. A quick sketch of my father can be summed up with three activities: I think…