In physics, I was trained to design and conduct experiments that were repeatable — that anyone could, with careful scrutiny of my papers, the right equipment, and some hard work, reproduce at another facility somewhere. The observers, by this logic, were important only in the sense that they were needed to do the work. If…
Month: October 2021
Trajectories
If you had told me back in late 2019 that all the places I loved would burn that year while a pandemic raged, I would have thought you were mad. And yet, here we are. Two years later and we’ve gone through months of smoke, catastrophic hail, two lockdowns, and now, the slow march towards…
And so it begins
I never know where to begin these things–partly because I’m writing this to see how this site will look once a post is live, and partly because my intentions for this site are terrifying to me in the same way that any truly worthwhile journey might be. I’m thinking now of a trip J and…