Monthly Archives: May 2015

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