There has been a lot of talk about resting, turning inward, and recharging during this pandemic. As this winter season of hibernating starts coming to a close it’s a perfect time to decide on (or officially plant) seeds you’ve been dwelling on. We are transitioning out of the slumbering and ready to awaken with a new sense of self.
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What is the new moon?
Do you ever look up into the night sky and wonder? What is going on up there? Are there aliens? Still looking. Are we made up of stardust? Yes. Are we the center of the universe? In a manner of speaking. Is the moon made of cheese? No. And lastly, why does the moon look different over the course of the month? In this post I include a simple demonstration to help show you the moon phases and discuss what the new moon is since the moon seems to magically disappear and reappear throughout the month.
Continue reading “What is the new moon?”Five STEM Women You Might Not Know
Women have made incredible contributions to the science, technology, engineering, and math (collectively known as STEM) fields since the earliest we can recall or have on record but their names have often been left off their contributions or been glossed over in favor of their male contemporaries who used women’s research or contributions to solidify their own work. As a woman in the sciences myself, I find it’s important to show that STEM is for everyone. I tell my students that science was the only place where I could ask questions, be wrong, and it still be important to understanding what was going on.
Continue reading “Five STEM Women You Might Not Know”Trying to Raise a Wild Woman (Without Losing My $***)
I’ve been reading “Women who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype” by Clarissa Pinkola Estés for months. It’s a wonderful book but it is definitely a book that takes time to read and digest it. In working to identify and focus on my “wildish” nature I realized that someone, with more qualifications than I have, needs to make a parenting guide for raising children who run with the wolves because as Frederick Douglass said: “it’s easier to build strong children than fix broken men” (although I believe “fixing broken men” is also important it’s not the focus of this writing).
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Inside The Messy Life of a Working Mom 