The best date my husband ever took me on involved a bunch of dead bodies. When he was in grad school, he snuck me into the Gross Anatomy lab one Friday night. 24 tables held cadavers in various stages of dissection. I wandered around, enthralled with the opportunity to glimpse the human interior. Do you […]
The word obstacle is defined as a thing that blocks one’s way or prevents or hinders progress. I’m thinking about obstacles as I am stalled in the school pick-up line. Officer Marty Jackson directs traffic each afternoon, resplendent in neon orange gloves and a smile. Today he lets a long line of cars out of […]
“I have found there is a wonderful harmony in the complementary truths of science and faith. The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. God can be found in the cathedral or in the laboratory. By investigating God’s majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.” ~Francis […]
Hades, the god of the underworld, fell in love with the beautiful Persephone and kidnapped the goddess of spring, imprisoning her in the netherworld. Demeter, Persephone’s mother and the goddess of agriculture, became so distraught that she plagued the world above with drought and darkness. After many months without growth, Zeus begged his brother Hades […]
In 1997, feeling a bit lost and unsure of my place in the world, I went to Ecuador with my parents and brother. David and I had been married less than a year. He was in grad school and couldn’t accompany us. I was on summer break from my teaching gig at Trapp Elementary […]
My hand hurts, cramped from flexing my wrist at an unnatural angle to master the F-major barre chord in Tequila Sunrise. A barre chord is when one finger frets, or lies across, all six guitar strings. My fretting thumb slides back awkwardly in an attempt to curl around the thick neck of my guitar. The […]
