Poeistry

Last night I read a beautiful piece about a rowboat, responsibility, a Great Grandfather, and the Holocaust.  It got me thinking about truth – and chemistry – probably since the first-time author also showed me his Chem homework at the same time.  I got to thinking how two seemingly perpendicular disciplines can make truth in ways […]

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Today I have a 10th-grader.

Odysseus becomes an official high-schooler today.  And he drives.  How did this happen when it was just yesterday that we walked up the street for kindergarten, backpack bigger than him bouncing all over the sidewalk?       This pic wasn’t quite kindergarten but it’s the closest I could find this late hour.  You get […]

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Journey home.

My teenage son, Odysseus , wrote today from the Greek Isle of Hydra to inform me of his delay in getting home to the US after a holiday trip. “There’s a storm and Poseidon won’t let us leave for two more days. I’ll be here, slaying the dragon. Don’t worry about me.” He had found […]

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