The meaning of life

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

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

Everything alive today has one common ancestor. All plants, all animals, all microbes, share a great great great (going back 3 billion years) grandparent. All things everywhere are my distant cousins. Is this what is meant by Mother Earth? Read about Last universal common ancestor (LUCA). I’m going back to […]

What is Mother Earth?