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Arisia 2017
I'll be attending Arisia in at the Westin Boston Waterfront hotel from January 13-16. I'm waiting to see what Friday the 13th at a con has to produce. I expect costumes, people; Friday the 13th costumes. NB: trying to get back into blogging in 2017. We all know how...
Abuse
I have PTSD. It's from events that occurred when I was young; events forced me to learn first hand that sometimes when you go to authorities and ask for help they respond by breaking your soul. Some of you out there know what I'm talking about, and I love you for...
Struggling for Work-Life Balance
Of all the questions people can ask, I never expected, "How do you get it all done?" to be the most common. I never thought I'd be the person anyone referred to when they said, "If you need something done, give it to a busy person." I often feel like I'm struggling...
Dreaming of success in an age of diminished possibility
It's taken me me longer to get to this essay than I had intended. While I might offer valid excuses related to work and travel, that wouldn't be the whole truth. The fundamental reason for this delay is I want to offer you hope, and I don't know how. My first essay...
Temp
I was born in December 1973, 1 year and a few days after the United States' last crewed mission to the moon. I have been engaged in research astronomy since I was 17, and have spent the entirety of my career being one of the youngest in the room. I'm still called...
Living in the Shadows of the Apollo Generation
I was born in December 1973, 1 year and a few days after the United States' last crewed mission to the moon. I have been engaged in research astronomy since I was 17, and have spent the entirety of my career being one of the youngest in the room. I'm still called...
Imagineering a new reality without abuse
Friday was one of those days that started out entirely normal and ended in a total paradigm shift. It was the day Geoff Marcy's wrong doing woke us all up, and it was the day Chris Ford helped me see what "right doing" can look like. As I am so often, I was traveling....
Despite…
Despite being a mistake. Despite being defective. Despite the moving. Despite the bullies. Despite the dyslexia. Despite being a latch-key kid. Despite being a girl. Despite the teachers who belittled. Despite health problems. Despite being a Tom Boy. Despite that...
#DragonCon 2015
This time next week I will be at the nerd festival that is Dragon*Con. Please feel encouraged to join me and some of my closest friends (and about 60,000 strangers) for 4 days of science, science fiction, and fantasy. There are only 4 real rules: each day you need 3...
There and Back Again: RPGing Life
On 29 July 2015 I flew away for what felt like a year and day, even though it was for only 3 weeks. I flew away from St Louis to Los Angeles and on to Honolulu, and each bit of this trip seemed a bit more surreal than the previous (and that says a lot, given that it...