Five years ago, my cousin Lauren Sewell died in a small airplane crash. Some accidents like these are just that: purely accidental, purely tragedies, purely blameless. But the surviving family members who do the work to understand what went wrong will tell you that these true […]
All posts tagged: Canada

Becoming a Real Scientist & Returning to Canadiana
Hail and well met, blog readers! It’s been a while. One whole month to be precise. Which I spent working in the field collecting data for my Master’s research on weta, those crazy giant nocturnal crickets I like to think about! I unfortunately was not […]

Photography and Departing to the Other Side of the World
Dearest readership, hear ye hear ye: I finally updated my Canada photography on this blog! Sounds like a cute little task, but has actually been the cumulative effort of the past several weeks, sorting through all the old photos I have fermenting on my computer and […]

Sprucing Up Old Photos
I have a backlog of photos that I’ve been meaning to edit, and finally my addiction to podcasts has left me with enough what-do-I-do-with-my-hands time to actually learn how to edit them! (You know you’re a hopeless podcast addict when you’re trying to find activities […]

My intellectual home on the internet
This is the excerpt for your very first post.