Welcome to Wonderful Waterful Thursday! WWT as I like to call it is the extra special blog post that follows what would otherwise have been Wonderful Waterful Wednesday, if I hadn’t spent an extra five hours waiting in Baltimore-Washington Airport for a flight to California… What is a “Sometimes Ocean”? If you’ve ever visited the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
18 Apr
Taking My Muse on a Date: Round of Words Weekly Check-in
Week Two of a Round of Words in 80 Days, or #ROW80 for those of us who spend waaay too much time on Twitter. It’s been a good week. Among my goals for ROW80 is to work through Julia Cameron’s creativity rediscovery program as detailed in the The Artist’s Way. Each week there are specific [...]
14 Apr
Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: Preserving the Blue Frontier
Our lives still depend on the seas. Oceans produce the air we breath and the food we eat. Isn’t it time we gave something back?
11 Apr
A Round of Words in 80 Days: Swinging Through Week One
It’s the end of week one of a Round of Words in 80 Days and the beginning of a three-month long journey to turn writing goals into long-term habits.
3 Apr
A Round of Words in 80 Days: A Writing Journey
A Round of Words in 80 Days – round two starts on April 4th, and I’m in!
30 Mar
Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
We’re Going Down! Happy Wednesday! For this week’s wonderful, waterful post, we’ll dive to the deepest realms of the ocean to check out the amazing, bizarre, and sometimes downright creepy-looking creatures that live there. In water 3000+ feet deep, where no sunlight penetrates, fish, squid, shrimp and jellyfish make their own light to help them [...]
16 Mar
Clear and Present Danger: Overwhelming Ourselves into Apathy
After covering a AAAS session on science and the media in my blog post last week, I’d planned to focus on another titled “Adapting to a Clear and Present Danger: Climate Change and Ocean Ecosystems.” Two of the talks stood out for me: one on the potential impacts of ocean warming and acidification, and the [...]
4 Mar
Science and the Media, or How Science Advanced at AAAS 2011: Part I
Most science conferences are like little in-group parties, where people who know each other’s work intimately get together to discuss their latest results, and query each other about what to do next. Don’t get me wrong – I love them. You meet interesting people, learn A LOT, and come home with new ideas, and great [...]
17 Feb
Science Without Borders: A Whirlwind Weekend at the 2011 AAAS Meeting
Yours truly will be blogging and tweeting from the 2011 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Stay tuned for updates from one of the most exciting events in the world of science!
7 Jan
An Ocean of Writing: Brave Blue Words in 2010, 2011 and Beyond
Wanna know what you can expect from Brave Blue Words in 2011? As before, many of my posts will come from the science headlines. I love keeping up on the latest research, and starting this year I’ll even have Science delivered to my door (a special offer for non-members who register for the AAAS annual meeting before January 27, 2011). I’ve also come up with a long list of topics that I am itching to learn and write about. Here’s a partial list of what I have on deck…
