Today is crowded with overlapping possibilities. Newark Museum's virtual Carnival Celebration runs all day, with the samba/capoeira session at the same time as Iowa's English country dance gathering. Says You's Kisses and Quips show was on my calendar for a long time, but my church's cabaret for Habitat for Humanity streams at the same time. Plus, ( Read more... )

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1. My poem Spelling "For Worse" is up at Goblin Fruit, in both text and audio formats.

1a. I am keeping right fine company on that TOC. :-)

2. Merrie Haskell wrote a novel called Castle behind Thorns. It's about to emerge, it has earned a starred review in Publisher's Weekly, and it will be a Junior Literary Guild selection. (Her second ( Read more... )

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As an indexer and copyeditor, I have a professional interest in how classification systems are maintained and how people agree on names (for each other, for categories, and for stray-items-that-aren't-easily-summarized-but-ARE-too-important-not-to-show-up-somewhere-in-the-index [she types, grinning ( Read more... )

Google Doodle in Bohr's honor

Jim Ottaviani's Suspended in Language, one of my favorite comic books.

Not often in life has a human being caused me such joy by his mere presence as you did.

- Albert Einstein, in a 1920 letter to Bohr

"A Particular Truth - 1941" - my sonnet about Bohr and Heisenberg (first featured in Contemporary Rhyme; ( Read more... )

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I was stuck in traffic yesterday afternoon. The upside to this was hearing NPR's story on, among other things, why it takes so long (i.e., eight years) for a spacecraft to land on Mercury:

[Maria] Zuber says the answer is gravity. Mercury's orbit is closer to the sun than the Earth's, and if you launch a rocket toward the sun, the sun's gravity is ( Read more... )