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A Birthday Story: Practicing Self-Compassion

As I mark a new age, I imagine what I’d tell myself thirteen years ago at my college graduation. Here goes – today’s a momentous day. She’s beaming, proud, and ready to…

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I’d Not Learned This Meaning Of Delta

The first time I ever heard of delta was learning the Greek alphabet, delta the fourth letter, not because I was learning Greek, but for mathematics and physics, where delta denotes the…

Call To Action: Urgent Need For Youth Advocacy in Justice System

Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court of The United States’ In re Gault case declared that youth deserve the same legal protections as adults. Fast forward to today, an estimated 70-90% of  young people in the…

The Present Situation—Fractured Reality: Reflections and a Poetic Response

Scrubbing Climate Change from Existence Won’t Save Us

Roughly eight years ago, I received a strange call from a national lab where I had just secured ‘in kind’ support—instrument time—to analyze shells, tiny foraminifera, I grew in a lab. My…