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It’s All in the Details!
Details, details! I am married to a detail person. When my husband gets home, we have a cup of tea (he is very British) and share our day. That is, I talk and he listens. He may ask for clarification: who I spoke with (first and last name), where I went (store name at...
When Nerds Get Happy
I am totally hyped about the discovery that Epstein Barr is implicated in multiple sclerosis (MS). Seriously! Is it because I’m a self-confessed nerd? Maybe. But it’s more than that. Let me try to explain. Maybe you’ll get jazzed, too. Way back (way, way back) when I...
My Daddy is Awesome
A few days ago, my 3-year-old granddaughter, M, came into the room, announcing that she is carrying the doll stroller because she is very strong. I asked her if it was heavy, and she easily confessed that it is not. Since conversations with this little lady are always...
Consistency and Contradiction in the Bible
Have you ever been in a car wreck? If so, the incident probably stands out in your memory as if it happened yesterday. My first accident occurred just after I’d just dropped my eldest children off at school while I was taking the youngest to nursery. It was winter in...
Holocaust Remembrance Day
I am the granddaughter of a German lady who immigrated to the Netherlands in her teens. I am also the granddaughter of a half-Jewish woman whose nieces, nephew, and sister-in-law were killed upon arrival in Auschwitz. Her Jewish fiance was a member of the Resistance...
It’s Complicated: What Can We Know About Science?
The student was obviously frustrated, “Well, they look square to me!” We had been having a discussion about the shape of the onion cells (they are elongated). Being an experienced teacher and seeing the incorrect notation in her lab write-up, I suspected that she had...