Featured Blog Posts – May 2012 Archive (11)

It's yard sale time! Spot the librarian... Nancy expertly categorizes and displays the many books on sale. Good job! The yard sale raised a total of $885 for the MS Society!

A batch of banana chocolate chip muffins fresh from the oven, which will be taken to the MS fundraiser yard sale tomorrow.

Everytime I think of writing about my mother on here, I change my mind.  I have so many mixed feelings, esp. right now when things are so difficult for me, my sister and my father.   I have been playing the role of my mother, which she abandoned, in part, years before she passed away.   I think she'd be here for me now and there is a part of me that helps me from beyond in getting through another day, another week, another year.  She lost her mother young, at age 13, and it affected her for…

My mother is one of my best friends. We definitely did not start out that way. We probably butted heads from the time I slipped into this world. From what I was told, I even gave her hard time then. I am sure having the doctor have to slip his hand up her and work her like a puppet to  turn me did not make me very endearing to her . If any one thinks this will be dripping with sugary sentiment you will be dead wrong.

What I can say is that although very flawed ( and who isn't?) she is…

Mom, that is a simple term and yet, not so simple. What is a mom? Some think that you're a mom just by giving birth to a child, but I feel it's more complex than that. But, we're not here to talk about that. We're here to talk about my mom, so let's do that, shall we?

Let's start with a little history. My mom, Danette Marie was born on May 23rd, 1958 in Milwaukee, WI. She is the middle child, sort of. My grandma had a child when she was 16 and gave her up for adoption. We…

I try a drawing practice trick of drawing an object without looking at the paper. This chair and lamp were more recognisable than I thought they'd be!

Rick answered the wiffledust individual creativity assignment where he was given this photo, two names,  and asked to write a song.

Mason smiled at Claire though there were many years between them

She saw him holding violin and bow

She stood there transfixed with a child's anticapation-

That only childlike innocence can…

    Who is it that started this?  When did we, as a society, decide to embrace this unyielding, brutally bizarre

 concept of the female form?  Why would we offer up our daughters,

 wives, sisters and mothers to such base contempt at the hands of

 strangers ?  Who are they (whomever THEY may be) to dictate that

 your daughter is to fat  or your…

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There are times when I am totally unaware of a prejudice I may have until I am up against the proverbial wall…

I had fun at the Philadelphia Science Festival several weeks ago.  I gave a talk about particle physics right in front of the new Sister Cities Cafe on Logan Circle.  The cafe wasn't open yet so the talk was outside.  Here is a photo of the event.  (That's me on the left.  The woman on the right is the moderator, Katie Winkler.  Photo by Arthur Stoppe.)…

Greetings to all!  I'm pleased to announce that a creative project I've been working on for the past two years has finally reached fruition.  It is a new book called Edge of the Universe: A Voyage to the Cosmic Frontier and Beyond, and explores cutting-edge discoveries about the universe.  Here is the cover photo:…