Working at a university has a lot of perks, and one of the newest is access to the makerspace in the engineering school. When I heard that there was going
1. I was born in the United States in the latter half of the 20th Century. While hardly utopian, particularly for non-white, straight, cisgendered people, I have known greater security
It seems like I’m being chased by an idea this month: the importance to human psychology of experiences that inspire awe. Today, it popped up in the midst of a
“The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.” Dorothy Allison It’s
What is awe? When I face the ocean, even on a day like this one when the ocean was calm, the waves whooshing against the sand more than they were