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The Exploratorium

Posted in ...and everything else, life and living on January 28th, 2013 No Comments »

The first time I dissected a cow eye, I was at The Exploratorium in San Francisco, a fantastic science museum that was housed on an absolutely beautiful campus, a part of the Palace of Fine Arts. Those of you of the right age and not from San Francisco will recognize this as where Seal’s “Kiss [...]

End of Year Reflections – Or, Why You Can Blame Carl

Posted in ...and everything else, Academics, Bioethics, Duct Tape and Prayers, life and living on January 3rd, 2013 1 Comment »

In my religious tradition, the end of the year is a time for reflection and contemplation; what happened over the course of the year, how will it influence your upcoming year, what lessons did you learn, how will those be implemented, and so on. It’s generally a relatively quiet thing – and yes, should be [...]

Not a Privilege but a Right

Posted in ...and everything else, Duct Tape and Prayers, life and living on January 2nd, 2013 No Comments »

A version of this post should have been up before Christmas, but technology decided to take a holiday a bit before the rest of us. …and then there was the time the WordPress wasn’t actually publishing posts, and things got behind, and then it all just seemed like such a big mountain to crawl out [...]

Found Those Million-odd Pieces

Posted in ...and everything else, Duct Tape and Prayers, life and living on December 17th, 2012 4 Comments »

Oh, I was doing so well until I wasn’t. But at least when I wasn’t, I was really committed to it. I’m not sure what threw the anxiety into overdrive today, but by about 10am I was a quivering mess. And once again, it wasn’t so much the potential diagnosis as it was not knowing [...]

A Million and One Little Pieces, Minus the Million

Posted in ...and everything else, blog as therapy, Duct Tape and Prayers, life and living on December 16th, 2012 1 Comment »

I expected to fly into approximately a million little pieces, give or take, by about 3pm Friday afternoon. In fact, I was so convinced that this was going to happen I began pulling things together to go home, because I am constitutionally incapable of falling apart at work, and I figured the strain of that [...]

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