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I've always loved the French horn and longed to learn to play, so today I picked one up for rent from a music store and started a month of lip buzzing. I used to play the trumpet, so I've got a head start, and I can already play songs with my Grandpa (86yrs). He can't always remember my name, but he will never stop being a band teacher at heart, and he remembers the fingerings perfectly.
I can do pull-ups! This has been my strength training goal for about 5 months, and I’ve finally made it. No gym membership, just body weight exercises and resistance bands in my living room. And a self-installed pull-up bar in my garage.
On Strength and Body Image
First off, complimenting women on aspects of their physical appearance is dicey territory. Avoid it if possible. Secondly, the following advice applies only to me, probably not everyone. And only to me in this particular era of my existence.
All that said, if you would like to compliment me, personally, right now…
Don’t say that I’m “thin.” Or that I’m “so skinny,” or “no wider than a jug of coconut water” (yep I’ve heard that one). “Thin” is not a compliment for me, at least not right now, and the teasing way that it’s usually spoken seems to hint more at unhealthy comparison than healthy praise.
Instead, if you want to compliment me… Tell me I’m strong. Ask what’s the draw weight of my recurve bow. Challenge me to an arm wrestling match (either arm!), or help me hoist my 40-lb kid onto my shoulders. Cheer me on as I train for my latest life goal: to pull off one pull-up from a dead hang.
For me, “thin” is sort of passive, a product of healthy eating habits and metabolism, neither of which require much active dedication on my part. (For the moment… I have done the dieting thing in the past.) But “strong” is something I’m daily working hard to be. “Strong” recognizes the hours of effort each week with resistance bands and body-weight exercises in my living room. “Strong” compliments my dedication, my persistence, my goal-setting and goal-achieving.
So tell me I’m strong. That takes you out of the body image comparison game, and puts you instead on my cheering squad. It’s a lot grittier and sweatier on the squad—but for me, for right now, it’s a better place to be.
I've come up with a name for my favorite form of harmonization: Third Wheel Singing. Hit me with your sappy lovers' duet anytime; I'll be in harmony heaven.
Plumbing
M (5yrs, wistfully, out of the blue, while eating lunch): I remember a time when we went plumbing. Me: Plumbing? Like, fixing our house’s pipes? M: Yeah. Remember the holes we made? .....um. Yes. They made a very different impression on me, I guess.
This past winter, I made wands! This project started as a gift for my steampunk wizard writer friend, E R Sandfire -- I made the straight one for her. She says it’s a great anchor for her cell phone shoved into her favorite boots. Then I took my practice piece, cut from the same tree branch, and made one for myself -- curved like the branch was. I learned how to use a rotary tool (Dremel) and wood-burning tool for this project.
Published on December 8, 2013. What are asteroids? What is science fiction and how much is science fact? OSIRIS-REx presents the first 321Science video about...
Showcasing my work for NASA, back in the day. 321Science! was a project that I created with a small team of grad students and staff in the OSIRIS-REx mission’s warehouse in Tucson. This video is one of many that we designed and produced to share mission science with anybody who’d listen. Anybody who doesn’t mind the catchy tune looping in the background.
Never budge. That's my rule. Never budge in the least! Not an inch to the west! Not an inch to the east! I'll stay here not budging, I can and I will, If it makes you and me and the whole world stand still!
- Dr. Seuss, “The Zax”
What’s in a banana?
J (almost 3yrs), at supper: "What is in a banana peel?" Daddy: "I don't know... probably cellulose?... nutrients the banana needs..." J waits a moment to let him speculate, then announces: "No... a banana!"
This is from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers conference months ago, but I’ve got to post it here because it is my very first celebrity selfie. Chris Paolini was so excited to finally meet me. Or maybe it was the other way around; my memory is a little fuzzy.
Actually now I’m thinking I should have ordered my New Years’ resolution list a little differently... at least the top few items.
Agents Phil Coulson and Melinda May kept everyone safe at the 2018 office holiday party. My entire outfit is pieced together from months of thrift store visits. His outfit: Turns out it is spectacularly easy to dress up as Phil Coulson.