April 12, 2022 Learning a new language Like many a public school kid, I had the requisite classes in either A. Spanish or B. French – these being my only choices…
April 5, 2022 The first Monarch caterpillars of the season are big enough to see Look who’s arrived in the garden! Our first monarch caterpillars of the season! Both are 4th instar, so one more molt before they go…
October 12, 2020 Adulting in a writerly way Writing achievement unlocked: I completed the first draft of a new story today. 6.3K total – 3.5K written *today*. It might totally suck, but…
October 11, 2020 Its beginning to look a lot like Halloween! Skeleton John and the praying 80s Pop Star monk have taken their places in the front yard.
October 9, 2020 Light shadow dark shadow I take pictures in our garden all the time. I did this even pre-COVID because I was in a personal lock down due to…
October 1, 2020 Its the Most wonderful time of the year! Happy Month of Halloween! Things to remember thus month: – glitter is also a goth color – chocolate is your friend – white supremacy…
June 3, 2020 What are you reading? Non-fiction edition. Currently open in my eReader: “The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander “The New Jim Crow is…
February 28, 2019 Black History Month – Marine Biology edition While reading many great articles about #BlackExcellence this month I thought about how I might contribute to the conversation, if at all. I finally…
February 28, 2019 Just write! Really good piece in by by Marissa Lingen in Uncanny Magazine about who gets to write Hard Sci-Fi and really what does “hard sci-fi”…
September 13, 2018 Two days at the Monterey Bay Aquarium For part two of our Monterey trip Scott and I got to take Cat to see the Monterey Bay Aquarium for the first time!…