My great-grandmother Anna was an orphan from Poland. I'm not sure how she lost her parents, but she had one aunt that we know of, who cruelly sent her to work as a child laborer.
Yearly Archives: 2015
Tinnitus. It all started with the tinnitus, when I was pretty young–around 3 or 4 I’m guessing, but maybe sooner. But that’s what I remember. My earliest memories are of myself lying in bed and unable to sleep because of the humming in my ears. The tone that I’ve always […]
Hearing Loss
Monte Alban, Oaxaca, is a mystical place that forever impacted me. It was one of the first sites where I was aware of a “vibe.” Places have vibes, falling on a positive and negative spectrum. I don’t mean just because it’s ancient, or that precisely who lived there over the […]
Mystical Place
As my career goal is to become a registered architect, I’ve been working on developing my design style. The trend in architectural renderings has been towards realism, but I don’t necessarily think that’s a good trend. The primary goal should be clear communication through visual means; we want to help […]
Developing My Style
Until seven years ago, I had never seen an armadillo (I still have yet to see a living armadillo). The first ones I saw were roadkill on highway 75 between Topeka and Dallas, but I never saw any north of the Oklahoma border, until recently. They’ve made their way into […]
Armadillos Affected by Climate Change
The study of evolution and DNA has been a fascinating topic to me since high school. All living things have one common ancestor (LUCA)— hypothesized to be a single celled organism around the time when life on Earth first began. Likewise, all living humans have a common human ancestor. The […]
Grandmothers project
The art of crochet is one hobby I’ve had since I was a kid. I never learned how to read crochet patterns, but figured some things out as I went along. I once tried to sell some of my work at arts and crafts fairs, but there wasn’t a high […]
The art of crochet
In remembrance of la batalla de Puebla on the 5th of May, 1862, here is a photo of the forts where the battle was fought (and my husband), and a sketch of the Iglesia de la Compañia and the Cathedral of Puebla. Puebla is an old city with architecture dating […]
Cinco de Mayo
Most scientists are saying they are safe, and normally I would agree with scientists. So why the skepticism about GMOs? I really don’t doubt that they’re safe for human consumption, but what does bother me is that they might not be safe for other organisms in the environment. For example, […]
Skepticism about GMOs
Sometimes I stop breathing in my sleep. Sometimes I dream I’m under water and can’t make it to the surface. Other times, I’m in a car that’s filling with water or being crushed under mountains of steel. I usually realize I’m dreaming by that point and scream to myself, “Wake […]
People who show up in dreams to help
When I was a kid, I thought all the people I’d known who had died were in heaven, shaking their heads in disappointment every time I did something wrong. I just knew they were thinking, “If only we’d known she was like this while we’d been alive, we wouldn’t have […]