Exploring the Universe
One day at a time, from the innermost to the outermost. I'm just a woman in my late 30's trying to figure things out.
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Day: July 12, 2025
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Since I’m getting all vulnerable out here with the writing, I am going to do something I have never done before, and share a poem I have written. This tiny being next to meBreathing softly in the darkHer sounds are smallThe very package she exists in is smallHer existence is fragile And yet, she is…
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This letter was written by me, to Dr. Jonathan Hall, who accepted me into his graduate lab at WVU and changed my life for the better in a million different ways. I’ll share more about him and his work down the road, but for now, this is what was going on before I entered (and…
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Wow – the video below was taken 2 weeks before Sunny was born, recorded April 30, 2021. When other people remember Sunny’s birth, they sometime say it was “traumatic”. I do not remember it this way. After my initial shock, I accepted the course of things, and thought that I felt only excitement and resolve.…