Tonight’s Neuroscience lecture introduced me to the neural tube. The neural tube is the introduction of the central nervous system within the embryo. Eventually this groove in its surface will form the spinal cord and brain. Neural folds on either side of the groove are elevated until they meet to kiss the opening shut, creating […]
tree in frick park
Being sick for the past 2 weeks does, in fact, have its advantages. Very very tiny, strange advantages but there they are nonetheless. One is a change of perspective. Exhaustion and congestion ruled my days so I had no choice but to take it down about two or three or five notches. […]
war protest rally, frick park 2004
Dear City,
You are good to my heart. You offered a soft place to land, and let me stain the surface with a shell-less flesh. The wet fist. I stared past the wounds and right at you.
I was young, I left everything. Now if I go anywhere else, here is where […]
the patrons seated at our spanish restaurant, owned by the My Little Pony gang
Dear Maddie,
Last weekend, I was lucky to spend some quality time with you. Since I live about 5 hours away, I take what I can get, but it’s never enough. You are four years old and such a brilliant little person. Whenever […]
If you like short stories and beautiful writing(the kind that engages all the senses), then you should read this book. I’m about 25 pages from the end and I’ve been singing its praises since page 1. It’s such a wonderful thing–to be reading this book right now while I’m editing my own. The bravery of […]
Covered in spiders’ webs, these cocooned trees in Sindh, Pakistan, are an unexpected result of floods that hit the region in 2010.
To escape from the rising waters, millions of spiders crawled up into trees. The scale of the flooding and the slow rate at which the waters receded, have left many trees completely enveloped […]