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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- We’re Moving, Again!
- Fire, water, and grief: A story about the loss of my dad
- Tournaments and Turkey Legs: Adventure at Colorado Renaissance Festival, and also what gives me pangs
- Science Communication: My first dabbling in 2013 at Science Online: Oceans!
- A Poem
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Author: Itchy Feet Travel
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Hello all – I know I am really procrastinating on the Greece posts. I promise, they’re coming! It was an incredible time and I’m phenomenally gratefully to Niki for opening up her life to Sunny and I in that way… we got to learn about her family’s history and culture on Ios island, visit the…
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If you haven’t experienced grief, it can sometimes feel like an object on fire – too hot to touch, and too bright to look at. My mom’s death, which happened only 3 years ago, still feels molten, like glowing metal freshly pulled out of the forge. When it comes into my field of vision, I…
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When my Dungeons and Dragon-ing brother Kory texted me a few weeks back that he wanted to take his girls to the Colorado Renaissance Festival, and asked if Sunny and Stelly and I wanted to join, I was secretly excited. (Ok, maybe it wasn’t a secret – I’ve never been great at hiding my dorky…
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This post is copied from one I wrote in 2013, two months into graduate school at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Completing my Masters there was an absolute dream. It was also some of my earliest exposure to the idea of science communication – that the science itself is…
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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.…
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This is some writing I did back in 2012, when I was working for the Staten Island Zoo in New York. It was a dream in some ways, but I had felt a constant tension between the vital role they play in offering access to nature for all people, and the ethical implications of keeping…
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In my last post, Why Are We Here, I mentioned my revelation that as things calm down for me post-divorce and ten thousand other life changes, I begin to realize that I may not even know what “the dust has settled” looks like. In the chaos of the last 10 years, I may have grown…
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This collection of quotes and mini memories are from some of my past travel experiences… It’s been such a blast to revisit old writing and instantly transport myself!
Exploring the Universe 