So, my skin is very very dry and itchy. Why? Because the weather has taken a turn for the drastic cold and dry here.  The highs have been around 20 below zero and the lows have been around 30 below.  With the windchills, its been -50 to -60.  Today, I stood in the freezing cold read more

As a child, one of my favorite books was Barbara Cooney’s “Miss Rumphius”.  Set in my home state of Maine, it challenged the reader to do three things with their life:  travel and see the world, come home and grow old by the sea, and, the most important, do something to make the world a read more

I’m sitting here, trying to write my statement of intent for my graduate school application and all I can comprehend is that I’m not entirely sure how to make someone else understand my intentions, at least within the context of the program’s entrance requirements.  i could paint pictures of my future, of my intentions, they’d read more