Each day post Sandy, I have spent either freezing, searching for charging stations or making my way to multiple hotels across state lines. Throughout my post Sandy experience, has been the adventure of trying to get a team back to New York and trying to get the office […]
I have been without power now 96 hours. I have slept in the cold dark house at night and I have now slept in two different hotels. Moving hotels as at times there is only one room available for a night. If that’s all they got, that’s what […]
I have been stranded by hurricanes in the past. During Hurricane Isaac I was stranded In Curacao. With my boredom with the non-stop frolicking on the beach, I went searching across the country for a lighthouse. What a glorious adventure that eventually ended with me not finding a […]
Dear future me: Today, October 30-the day after frankenstorm, I am hunkered down in the local library’s children section surrounded by stir-crazy kiddies, glazed-eyed adults and strewn-about power cords. Everyone watching that percentage icon on their electronics. My nails are bitten down to the core, my belly is […]
At the end of my first visit to Puerto Rico ever, I was followed out by Hurricane Hugo. That was the scariest plane ride I had had until my Las Vegas return trip recently when we had to land in a different city. Hurricane Hugo, was a rare […]
Where was I? I heard the cop sirens going on by. But I was pretty sure I wasn’t in New York. I open my eyes slowly. Yup, my sinuses still hurt. I get up and look out the hotel window. Ah, yes, I was in Kentucky. I put […]
The concept of peer review has been deconstructed and reconstructed by countless others, but I still feel compelled to add my two cents, particularly in light of recent journal articles on how scientists may feel disenchanted with the whole process. Not that many articles actually get entirely rejected, […]
Oh, here we go again. Point that finger, walk around and give that smirk a workout. Yes, I am watching the debate. The gloves are off. They are jabbing and punching: Metaphorically-speaking of course. Although, they have come quite close to each other a few times there on […]
In Observation of National Latino AIDS Awareness Day During my college tenure the United States had its first Hispanic Surgeon General, who also happened to be the first woman to ever hold that position. Unfortunately, I was so immersed in my studies and overall college experience that I did […]
Space, the final frontier! That sounds so exciting and adventurous. Shouldn’t Americans who psychologically signed on wholesale onto the Manifest Destiny want to explore space further? But today, the Endeavour arrived at an L.A. museum after many delays. Pretty typical. On May 5 1961, that Alan Shepard blasted off atop […]