Life is not a highway, it’s a balancing act

There are not many “lifestyle” draws of going into science.  The pay sucks, for one.  For two, there is a distinct lack of glamour.  I know - spending all day staring at vials of insect larvae SOUNDS fantastic, and who wouldn’t want that for themselves?  But let me tell you, when your hair is never […]

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Can I Vote on Your Marriage Now?


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Who’s got a time machine? Anyone?

So it looks like that crucial decision that was either all Mavericky Bad-Assed or a Transparent Gimmick to win over women and the right wing nuts has finally, officially backfired.   Sarah Palin is scaring people away from John McCain even faster than W or McCain’s own economic cluelessness can.  Besides making Tina Fey a […]

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what i did on my summer vacation

I’ve taken quite a hiatus from writing here - June through September, like I’m in college again. It was mostly by design rather than a sudden loss of interest, although it did go on a bit longer than I planned. Since May I’ve had a lot of first-time visitors to my new California home, and […]

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Back to Basics

I feel that I find myself re-living certain moments or eras of my past often, because of my three younger sisters.   It must be like having kids, only the memories are slightly more recent.  In the past two months I’ve had some uninvited flashbacks to the junior high science fair experience, one of those school-related […]

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