This may be the first time I’ve ever been grateful for America’s early dining hours. We break for dinner at five o’clock; and by five o’clock, am I ever ready for a break. I don’t always want to eat (nor … Continue reading
Daily Archives: July 17, 2013
Heard while standing on the observatory roof in Wyoming: Oh my god. Holy fuck, there are stars! Wow, there are a lot of craters there. Were there fewer in the Cretaceous? Oh, wow. Like, wow! Is this the bit you … Continue reading
[written this morning, because Other Reasons] Humans are pattern-seeking animals. Yesterday we were looking for patterns in spectral lines, which will hold true in perpetuity – sodium will always have two heavy bars of yellow; when that changes, it won’t … Continue reading
[written yesterday, posted this morning, because Reasons] Oof. These Wyoming days are lovely, but we don’t see much of them; these Launch Pad days are long, and intensive, and challenging. (Okay, it’s largely Astronomy 101, but nevertheless: when it’s forty … Continue reading
Welcome back to The Author’s Alphabet. You can read earlier posts here. Each week, I’ll be posting another letter of the alphabet, selecting a word that starts with that letter, and sharing my view of what that word means to … Continue reading
Serano answers a question that I’ve always wanted to ask: why the trans person’s journey doesn’t get included much in the GLB discourse about problems with gender in our society.
Continue readingEditor’s note: This week’s “critter” post is a special post on music about the Irish wolfhounds in Irene Radford’s Merlin’s Descendants series. I’m not certain when I fell I love with Irish Wolfhounds. It might have been the day a … Continue reading