Wednesday Blog

  • Sneezing across the West, Part 2

    Sneezing across the West, Part 2

    Click the Instagram logo above to view my archived Instagram story from this trip. Introduction The morning after our stargazing, my Dad and I packed up our belongings and took our places in the Mazda for the 170 mile drive west to Salt Lake City. I was feeling exceptionally better after the visit to the Read more

  • Sneezing across the West, Part 1

    Sneezing across the West, Part 1

    Click the Instagram logo above to follow my updates of this trip as they happen. For many years now I’ve thought about the idea of taking a big road trip across the Western United States. For a while my idea was to drive from Kansas City up to Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, before my focus Read more

  • Goodbye, Noel

    Oh, my sweet little pup, I remember when I first met you sixteen years ago on a warm summer’s day. You were little more than a month old, and more excited than anyone can fathom at new people coming to your front door. For those first two years you lived with my cousins, until your Read more

  • The Myths of Our Time

    Mythology has always been central to our stories, whether they be stories of Orpheus’s tragic attempt to rescue Eurydice from Hades or Casey’s tragic failure at the bat. Myths serve to bind us together in ways that only stories can. And while there’s always a grain of truth to every myth, it’s the story that Read more

  • Zoom

    Well, it’s been almost a year and a half or so since the pandemic started and we at SUNY Binghamton largely switched to online remote learning. All of this became possible for the masses through the widespread introduction of Zoom, the ubiquitous video-calling platform. I actually advocated more than others among the TAs I was Read more

  • Signs

    Yesterday evening, my parents and I drove out into my old high school stomping grounds in Lenexa and Overland Park, in the southwestern suburbs of Kansas City. My Dad had to return a truck part to a shop he frequents in Lenexa, and seeing as we were out there around dinner time, we decided to Read more