I think this is such a cool thing: one of the current “inhabitants” of the International Space Station (ISS), JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, is on Twitter (@Astro_Soichi) and the other day he tweeted a picture of Amsterdam by night, taken from the ISS.

He’s tweeting all kinds of stuff and pictures from the ISS, so I [...]

Tomorrow is going to be one of those big days… Those days that carve into my mother heart…
Neither of tomorrow’s happenings are life threatening events. It’s not like that. It’s just that for some reason they have accumulated on this one day, so lots will be going on tomorrow:

I just filled in the application for [...]

Hi y’all!
Just a short weekend note and a special warm “Hello” to all the peeps in the US North East and East States that are bracing themselves for the fucking enormous blizzard that is due to rear it’s ugly head over the weekend.

Be safe please, get inside, get warm and snuggly, make sure you have [...]

I can’t believe it was 20 years ago that I was in front of the TV following the biggest political event since WWII in Europe. We were watching coverage of what was going on at the border in between East and West Germany, the infamous Berlin wall. The wall that for years had kept families, [...]