Home. How do you define it? Most of the time I think of home I am thinking of the house that I live in with my family in Colorado. But I just finished reading a book set in the mountains of Kentucky and it really made me think of home. My home in the context of my ROOTS. Who I am. Where I came from. The descriptions of the sounds of water flowing in the creek, the...

Since I am moving my blog I have been going back through old entries.  This fits right in line with going through all the boxes in my basement and deciding what I need to keep or sell at my garage sale in 2 weeks.  I found this entry from April 2007.  After watching the rowers on the Charles River I really wanted to learn how to row.  In 2009 I signed up for...

I am in the process of moving my blog to a new URL.  In doing so, I am going back through my old blog posts and moving some of them to this new blog location.  It struck me as really funny that I wrote this blog entry on clutter in 2007 and now 4 years later (yesterday) I wrote a blog on having too much stuff.  Clearly this is still an issue for me. This Post was...

On the way home yesterday the local radio station was having people call in to discuss whether or not they thought using genetic engineering for “designer babies” was a good thing or not. I only got to hear one call but it raised so many interesting questions about the ethics of genetic engineering. What difficult choices there are going to be in our...

I am taking Pilates classes trying to work on improving my back problems. There are all these exercises where the instructor is always telling me to keep my eyes on my navel. The word for the day last week seemed pretty on point for that. omphaloskepsis (om-fuh-lo-SKEP-sis) noun Contemplation of one's navel.