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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  • I’ve been revisiting a lot of old writings – this was posted to Facebook May 13, 2021, the day before Sunny was born. It’s not new content, so if you follow me there, you would have already read it. It’s wild to think that this was five years ago. But it’s fun to reread what…

  • Fire, water, and grief: A story about the loss of my dad

    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…

  • 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.…