Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist
Combining Science and Joyful Creativity
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.
That got your attention, didn’t it?
I experienced a ‘snot bridge’ this morning.
You see, I know that bridges are often slippery – the lack of insulation makes them freeze before the rest of the road. I always hold the wheel a little tighter when I approach a bridge on a cold and blustery day.
This morning was definitely cold and blustery.Continue reading “Snot Bridge”
On Sunday (that’s yesterday), I posted this photo on both Facebook and Twitter:
It’s eight slow-cooker recipes all laid out so that I can prepare them. I got two questions immediately on both forums:Continue reading “Slo-Cookin’”
I’m a writer.
I mean, I haven’t published any fiction as yet, but I write. Every day. Often it’s just a little blog post. Sometimes it’s a little more technical. Sometimes it’s a lot more technical. (And I have published technical papers, so I guess I could argue that I’m a professional writer. Ha!)
One thing that people like me – those who write for pleasure but aren’t really making a career of it – often do is sign on to various writing challenges and contests. I enjoy the challenges and occasionally, I sign up to do a contest.Continue reading “Challenges and Contests”
I may have mentioned before that I hate to cook. I really hate to cook.
But in the last week, I’ve discovered the joys of the mini Crock Pot I just got. I have it in my office and put a meal-sized portion in it in the morning, so I have a warm, delicious meal at lunch time.
So I made an old favorite recipe for chili, one that I often make when I’m camping because it’s easy. Continue reading “Camp Chili – Recipe”
I don’t even know if that’s a word.
Well, now it is a word, because I can do that. It’s my doctoral privilege.
Fangirling – v. To act of obsessing – nay, fawning – over a celebrity that you will probably never meet. A term that may only be applied to women.Continue reading “Fangirling”
It’s hard to know what to do when someone you love is given a diagnosis of a ‘problem’ that you don’t understand well. There’s always some relief in having a diagnosis, because it’s simply easier to deal with something you can name.
Autism is one such diagnosis. Oh, the horror of finding you that your child or someone that you love is autistic. You’ve seen Rain Man. You’ve heard what they’re saying over there at Autism Speaks. It’s a death sentence. It’s institutionalization. It’s the end of the world.Continue reading “Autism and Fun with Literalism”
Today’s been one of those days. All told, it was a good day. But I’m completely whipped.
About every-other Saturday (probably a little less frequent than that), I drive to Ithaca, NY for a fencing lesson (or two or three). It’s about a two hour drive one way, and uses up at least six hours of my Saturday, so I don’t do it every week, but whenever time, energy, and weather permits.
Today was one of those Saturdays when I decided that I’d make the trip.Continue reading “Unexpected Exhaustion”
They say bad things happen in threes. Well, I’ve had three fairly rotten things happen to me in the first four days of 2014.
Three problems.
Luckily, three solutions too.Continue reading “In Threes”
Well, we got pounded again last night. I didn’t measure (I should have), but I’m sure we got close to two feet of snow from winter storm Hercules.
Here’s what our driveway looked like this morning, before I cleared it.
Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist