So I logged in Sunday night to write what I expected to put up today — a post about my top 15 albums of 2007 — but before I could start composing I noticed on the site’s dashboard that we had received a link from a blog I thought had been abandoned: Is There No [...]
I’m 7 years old and it’s Christmas morning. I’ve been waiting for this day for six months. Being born on June 25, the two most important days of the year are perfectly spaced out.
I have gone through the traditional routine leading up to this moment: trying to be good, making a list, checking [...]
The little corner of the Intermountain West where I work has recently become something of a boomtown. The energy industry is king on high dessert and mountain plateaus, and many people have moved to town to work on the oil-rigs, natural gas pipelines, and now, wind-farms that dot the landscape. Workers come from across the country [...]
On the first day of sitting:
We go silent at 5:00 p.m, but first, we sign in, read over the instructions for the week and wait around for the orientation. I make a final phone call to my boyfriend of six months, letting him know I’ll call him once I’m on the “other side” of [...]
I took a quick trip to Florida last week to see the Space Shuttle launch. I used to have an astronaut for a boss; he was supposed to go up on Thursday and had invited everyone who had worked on this particular team to attend as “VIP” guests.
As it turned out, NASA discovered fuel-sensor problems [...]