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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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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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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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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We’ve been making some new friends here from India. We’re beginning to have visitors to our house, which is fun. This morning, I woke up and everyone in the house had gone into town. I decided to go for a walk to the beach. I got there, and there were tons of boys playing cricket.…