“Where do you want to go today?” I ask my oldest. She has a thing for the Northern Lights, so we spend a little while trawling YouTube for videos before doing another few laps around the house. She put together a rainbow obstacle course for part of the lap, just to mix things up, and…
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The pandemic continues
We’re in our fourth Saturday in a row of covid testing and quarantine. I’m a bit over it. Daycare / school bugs caught us the last three weeks and now, it seems we may have crossed paths with someone with the omicron variant. And so we wait, again — this time, with the knowledge that…
Doing the work
I’ve been avoiding the work. It’s always too late, too busy, too <insert excuse of the moment here>. And yes, life is too full and I say yes to too much and I have two adorable tiny kids who need me a lot right now, but I think all of that is an excuse, really….
When objectivity is not an option
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…
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…