Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist
Combining Science and Joyful Creativity
A week ago last Monday, I bottled up my very first batch of beer. I’ll be tasting it for the first time in less that an week.
A week ago last Tuesday, I awoke to clean brewing equipment and a hankerin’ to do some more brewing.
The RocNaNo Blog offers Wordless Wednesday writing prompts. This is my response to this week’s challenge, based upon this photo:
Continue reading “Wordless Wednesday Writing Challenge – Hot Chicks”
It’s mid-March. The official start of spring is but a few days away. (Though I’ll believe it when I see it.)
I want it to be spring – and summer – pretty badly. I don’t think there’s enough lotion in the world to make my poor dry skin feel good again. I welcome humidity. And thunderstorms. And mud.
In a burst of what may be misguided optimism, I decided to start some seeds last night. Continue reading “Leafy Tuesday – Starting Seeds”
March is half over. Spring is (nominally) in the near future (though with the chilly temperatures, it’s hard to imagine).
I have no memory of January. I don’t know where February went. I know I’ve been doing things, because the evidence is all around me. I’ve been teaching, and doing research. Running the lab as always.Continue reading “Why is February So Miserable?”
Friday Headlines, March 14, 2014
THE LATEST IN THE GEOSCIENCES
Today’s round-up:
Holy collapsing crater!
Haboob. That it all.
The littlest tyrannosaur.Continue reading “Friday Headlines: 3-14-14”
I have now had the pleasure of enduring my first-ever official blizzard. The weather was completely miserable. It wasn’t the snow, it was the wind that made it so uncomfortable.
I decided to take it upon myself to take photos of the same subject at regular intervals in order to capture the depth of snow. The snow didn’t get terribly deep, but the drifts got huge.
It’s been an exciting week in Brewville (AKA my house). For the first time, I have bottled my own beer.
This was not without its problems. I definitely shot beer at myself, and made a rather sticky spot on the floor, but it’s bottled.Continue reading “Thirsty Thursday – Bottling Day!”
One of the struggles I have had as the parent of a child on the Autism Spectrum is knowing what to do, what to expect, and what is normal. Continue reading “Twitter Primer for Finding an #Autism Community”
Maybe it’s just that I’m paying more attention to it these days, but it sure feels like there’s a lot of talks, and legislation, and debates, regarding the concept of “Creationism” in contrast to “Science.” Creationism is this idea that the Earth and everything on it were created by some supernatural means. There are lots of religions what include some manner of creation story. After all, what is more human than wanting to know where you came from?Continue reading “Transitional Forms – The Case of the Fish-ibian Part Two”
Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist