Baby Boomers… How to Stop Time 9 Feb 20119 Feb 2011 A student who's juggling unemployment stress and family crises (while still getting his schoolwork done) asked, "Can you just tell me how to stop time?" The same day, my son…
Blogging… A Slice of Sky 26 Jan 201126 Jan 2011 As soon as I discovered William Herschel's music and bio on KBAQ, I wanted to adopt the man as an honorary ancestor. William Herschel (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel) professional musician and…
Blogging… Information Radiation 19 Jan 201120 Jan 2011 My young scientist borrowed this laptop for school research. He’s preparing to impersonate Wilhelm Röentgen, the man who discovered and named x-rays (and had their units of measurement named for…
Business… What Makes Me Smile 4 Jan 20113 Jan 2011 This passage shared in one of my end-of-the-year posts a couple years ago still makes me smile: I always knew that one day I would take this road but Yesterday…
Business… Be a survey-writing genius 12 Apr 201029 Dec 2010 Most of you aren't actually professional survey writers. You just want to ask customers how you're doing, or gather research for your dissertation, and you've never even studied survey writing.…
Business… Go fly a kite 27 Mar 201013 Jun 2025 Today I had “promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep,” when my ten-year-old (astronaut/aerospace engineer) noticed it was perfect kite-flying weather. Spring break can be torture for…