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This is a photo of the Lukla airstrip in Nepal

According to my stomach, I have flung myself off a cliff, which is how it feels to take off from this airport: Note abrupt end to very short airstrip. I took this photo during my days as a Himalayan...

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Nine months

So I vanquished my General Exam on Friday, which was a great thing. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to relax at all this weekend. I haven’t had a day off in forever, and I feel like I should be...

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A memory of light and postdocs

Excited! (photo courtesy of Goodreads)Since the early 1990s, I have eagerly awaited each new volume. I lugged those books to my after-school and summer jobs in southeast Virginia, inhaled them during...

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Code for home

Yesterday I received my first postdoctoral fellowship offer. It’s for two years of salary, awarded directly to me, for a proposal that I wrote. I will not have a boss, but a host–the point being that I...

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Achievement unlocked: PhD

Friday came and went, and somewhere in there I defended my PhD. Prior to my public talk, my advisor mortified me with a very kind introduction. I considered repeating it here because my memory will...

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Naps with dogs

In the month since I last posted, I’ve been reacquainting myself with summer and how to not work a bajillion hours a week. Seattle has seen some hot days. I read some books. I swam off a dock in Lake...

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2013: The year in numbers

1 novel written: Iris. My primary goal was to complete this novel. 4 short stories written. My goal was to write at least one new story. 38 short-story submissions (4 responses pending). 1 short story...

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Nothing to prove

The song, “You’re the Best,” has been stuck in my head for months. I sing it to my dog (who really is the best), myself (doubtful), my morning granola-and-yogurt (pretty dang good). I haven’t seen The...

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2014 Year in Review

When I went back to graduate school in 2007, then in my late twenties, I didn’t expect to wind up in Los Angeles six years later. I didn’t anticipate how much more stressful and uncertain postdoc life...

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To patch with gold

In Japan there is a kind of reverence for the art of mending. In the context of the tea ceremony there is no such thing as failure or success in the way we are accustomed to using those words. A broken...

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Nothing is ever a failure

Here’s the thing about being a writer, or a musician, or an artist, or any sort of creative person. The ones who make it are … the ones that hear no as not yet and nothing is ever a failure, it’s only...

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