There was something hauntingly beautiful about this evening driving through Missouri. I think this photo captures that.
Ok, well… to be specific we are basically in Joplin. We will be turning north soon. And, yes… those are them Duke Boys on the radio.
Jodi and I are departing today for our annual winter road trip from Texas to Wisconsin. We’re looking forward to spending time with family over the next 10 days. In the spirit of re-emerging into the world after a very busy year, I’m going to do my level best to […]
I woke up a little late this morning. I wanted to be up at 4:30am. It was 4:40 when I realized the alarm I had set the night before was going off, and I pulled myself out of bed. Jodi was already up, working on her class prep for the […]
The summer of 2018 was both predictable and unexpected. As I began reflecting on this past summer, now that teaching is nearly upon me again, I came to find numbers that represented its many aspects. I want to share some of those numbers with you, and the meaning behind them. […]
I found myself recently standing on the shores of Lake Michigan, reflecting on the connections between these human spaces and the most vast spaces of the cosmic shores. The lighthouse on Cana Island in Door County, Wisconsin stands on the shores of Lake Michigan. At a height of 87 feet, […]
Six years ago on this date, the Higgs boson was (probably) discovered by the ATLAS and CMS Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. I say “probably” because, at the time, all we really knew for sure was that we had discovered a new particle, with a particular […]