Category: Safaris

S: A long time ago, I was the Executive Assistant for a gemstone wholesaler and jewelry manufacturer in the Pacific Northwest. I began as a gem sorter, or fluter. Using long tweezers, calibers, trays,...

S: This month, I went to New York (Manhattan and Brooklyn), New Jersey, Maryland, Washington DC, and finally Puerto Rico. Here is what I knew. I knew I wasn’t doing any international legs on...

S: I spent two very quiet weeks in Bozeman, Montana, primarily looking at plants. Week One: Medicinal Plants. Week Two: Invasive Plant Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Somehow, my two summer weeks of...

S: On June 21, 2015, I experienced summer’s Northern Solstice near the Arctic Circle. In Reykjavik, Iceland, at 12:03 am, the Sun finally set and rose again, in almost the exact same spot, at...

S: My weekend began with an email that I’d been accepted as a dolphin research intern in Greece. It was shortly after an amazing tour at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, through the various robotics...

S: Ever since I moved here, it’s been non-stop moving. Now that I have the opportunity to move, I want nothing more than to stay, as long as I can travel. The opportunity has...

S: Does this make sense to you? “An active voice is used in a clause whose subject expresses the agent of the main verb.” How about this? “You must draw the reader into the...

S: While at the national National Science Teacher Association conference in Chicago this week, I learned how to weigh a galaxy. It’s quite simple actually; I just solved a simple equation for Mgal, or...

S: Today I return home safely from my first (nearly) independent international trip.  La Fortuna.  The name itself was reason alone to seek it.  I had little plan and was plenty prepared to explore....

S: I attended and presented at the Space Exploration Educators Conference this weekend at Space Center Houston.  I’ve been involved with SEEC for six years; yet I’ve never experienced it, let alone presented on...