Shadows & Light

Summer vacation has begun! Yesterday was our last day of work until mid-August. Many faculty and staff went to the graduation ceremony,...

Dave and I had big plans this summer. We thought we'd get married. I'm using the past tense here because the bureaucratic power...

These are horsetails , prehistoric plants that have been called "living fossils." I came across a thick stand of them in the ce...

Well, we've solved a third of our household malfunctions. The telephone repairman came yesterday, and I raced home from work to meet ...

No repair people have been in touch. We linger in stasis. We're hanging on the telephone, like Blondie , except that the telephone li...

We are still Internet-less. I'm writing this from work, when I can grab a moment between students. It's crazy how everything in o...

Coming to you today from Cafe Nero, because the Internet at our house has spontaneously gone bust. We lost our connection yesterday and I...