A few months ago, my alma mater, Lawrence University (Appleton, WI), informed me that they had dug up my honors project (magna cum laude, thank you very much) and wanted to digitize it onto their library website to share with other Lawrence students and the rest of the world. I…
I can’t stop looking at this image of the Andromeda Galaxy compiled together by the Hubble Space Telescope. I hold my breath, and my eyes glaze at the wonder of it, the magnitude of what I’m looking at. Star after star, millions of them, each surrounded by countless planets and…
Good morning, friends! I am happy to report that I have finished Episode 2 of Spaceship in a Box (“The Homeworld of the Builders”) and compiled it together into its own manuscript. There really is nothing in the world like seeing the first draft of your book completed. I now…
I am a huge fan of Christmas music. I’ve always listened to music from Thanksgiving through Christmas night to get into the spirit of the season, to remind myself of all the good things about the holidays, to feel the Christmas Spirit flow through me. I’ve got a long list…
Today was a huge day. Not because of the economic reports, the boom on the stock market, the new Terminator trailer or the new Nebraska Football Head Coach. No, today is a huge day because the U.S.A. got back into the business of space travel. A few years ago when…