by toby | Jul 21, 2010 | Life
She stumbled toward the water, laden like a camel in the Sahara with scuba apparatus. Sweat beaded forehead, trickled down spine, puddled in the claustrophobic carapace over the constricting suit. Her back bowed under the weight of steel and rubber as she staggered...
by toby | Jul 17, 2010 | Life
Guest Blog by Tawny Neal, Cellular/Molecular Biology Major and Intern I’m back from the misty jungle, tired and dirty but pleased. After a long week in another world, the return to civilization is jarring. It is one of the most astonishing things I’ve ever...
by toby | Jul 15, 2010 | Life
Idea mining. It's a whole new way to work, and it involves taking naps. After my daughter left for University and my son moved out, there was a void in my life. Yes, yes, I know, the infamous Empty Nest. I was aware of this syndrome, and being me, I had a plan—I was...
by toby | Jul 14, 2010 | Life
Rainbows Super cheesy topic folks. I want to preface the following remarks with the explanation that I was, indeed, a child who believed in fairies, unicorns, spirits and menehunes. Not Santa though—we didn’t do Santa. But we loved rainbows in our family, and...
by toby | Jul 13, 2010 | Life
(Names and details confused to befuddle anyone trying to figure out who's in this story) Anna is a little woman with an amazing mind who possesses two master’s degrees and speaks three languages. She talks rapidly, like her thoughts leave her tongue behind. She and...
by toby | Jul 9, 2010 | Life
“I need natural material shoes,” my daughter says, pacing nervously around the house as she packs for her first-ever helicopter trip. “I also need to wear all natural fiber clothes.” She’s packing for a week in the trackless jungle on the rainy side of the volcano...