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  • The Clean Up

    In the late nineteen nineties, I did a research paper on Hanford. It was the location of the part of the Manhattan Project where they refined plutonium for the creation of nuclear bombs used against Japan in WW2 and during the build up of the Cold War arsenal. Because of the secretive nature of national…

  • Infinite Potential

    Last week, I helped an eighth grader do his math homework. Algebra is not my strength, but we figured it out together. It was about slopes on a graph. There were ten problems and when we finished the seventh, he said he could submit the assignment for a passing grade. I asked him if he…

  • Insomnia

    If you listen to conservative news commentators, there is a strong insistence against anything “woke”. What is it to be “woke“ and why are certain people so strongly against it? Basically, the term means a person who has recently become aware of systematic racism, as in “awoken” to a problem that has been occurring for…

  • Cubits & Curiosity

    I was thinking about my Dad recently and his impact in the world. While he never built anything large, nor entertained a wide audience, after his death, for years, I would run into people whose lives he had crossed and created a meaningful connection. One of his talents was listening, not necessarily for relational purpose,…

  • Tough Times & Choices

    The movie that I ended up seeing back-to-back with Oppenheimer, was not the Barbie movie, but the 1975 film The Hiding Place. If you aren’t familiar, the story is about a Dutch watchmaker and her family that hide Jews during the German occupation. (There are some free streaming services that have it.) Both films are…

  • Quality of Life

    Yesterday, was my lecture about Globalization and Economics for my class. I went over different economic theories, types of trade, infrastructure, development and industrialization. One of the things that struck me as I reviewed the information, was how much is missing in financial discussions about quality of life. In a rush to get highways built…

  • Click Clique

    Being a stay-at-home-mom, I often turn to social media for advice with various situations that I find myself in. For example, I use the handy woman group to look up how to do simple fixes in the house, a baking page for recipes, and a piano page to share what pieces I am learning and…

  • Couples Therapy

    Like many couples, Tim and I like to find activities that we both enjoy. One thing we often do is pick out a show to watch together. It gives us something to look forward to when we’re apart and something to discuss when we’re together. During the pandemic, we watched Somebody Feed Phil, a delightful…

  • Pretty People

    At different times of my life I have been more or less what may be considered conventionally attractive. There was a time in high school when being tall and slender gained me access to some of the popular groups. This was exciting because I had started freshman year kind of short with braces, acne and…

  • Made for It

    People love to work.