Keep on Trying
They say that people usually get more conservative as they get older, and I’ve seen countless examples. There are logical reasons for this, from the financial to the simple fact that societal changes can be hard to adjust to.
Continue readingIs This Who We Are?
Here’s what’s so frustrating to me about this entire election and the way Trump treats women (and other minorities) and how people treat Hillary:
As a woman who is smart, successful, and outspoken I must constantly monitor the way in which I am perceived. If I … Continue reading
Back For The Future
From July 12-15th, 1976 the Democrats held their quadrennial convention to nominate their candidate for President of the United States in Madison Square Garden in New York City. We all know that they nominated Jimmy Carter during that convention, but lesser-known is the person who came in 5th place out … Continue reading
Two Little Women and an Ambulance
I have this long list of subjects I wanted to tackle in the new year, with all kinds of references and notes. However, 2015 is already pretty much dominated by a single subject – a broken leg.
It happened while figure skating with my friend and his 3.5 year old … Continue reading
The Womb is the Most Dangerous Place for a Child?
This headline was said (not as a question) through a bullhorn at a protest yesterday in Washington D.C. where 40 people staged a “die-in” by lying on the ground in the fetal position while a red cloth was draped over them.
Two nights ago, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said that, “[w]e’ll … Continue reading
Women Must Smile
Tonight the GOP showed that it has been paying attention to America. The Republican Party chose Joni Ernst, a freshman senator from Iowa to deliver their response to President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight. She’s a mother, a veteran, and a farmer, just with … Continue reading
The Future
The past week or so has been completely non-stop for me, buried under a mountain of grading, applications to doctoral programs, and my own final papers, but before the academic avalanche closed in, I was at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to cover the Exploration Flight … Continue reading
Are We There Yet?
I set out to write a post about the representation of women at the 2014 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) earlier this fall in Toronto, instead, all I could think about was how much the women at IAC represented women at large, and what we are going through. You see, … Continue reading
Another Space Race and A Woman’s Place
Russia has had a funny history with female cosmonauts. While NASA had been tinkering with the idea of female astronauts, testing 25 extremely qualified women before choosing the Mercury 13, who passed all of the same tests as the Mercury 7 men with flying colors, they decided to “go another … Continue reading
Birthdays and Glory Days
As I write this, I’m basically in the process of turning 38. As no one I know has a clue as to what time I was born, I just have to go with the turn of the date to the 29th day of the seventh month of the year.
I … Continue reading