Reaching a milestone
Yesterday, I woke up to an email from the San Diego Community College District saying my application for graduation was reviewed, approved, and the degree awarded! Boom! I don’t need a cap-and-gown commencement ceremony to…
Yesterday, I woke up to an email from the San Diego Community College District saying my application for graduation was reviewed, approved, and the degree awarded! Boom! I don’t need a cap-and-gown commencement ceremony to…
When I started this website four years ago, I was pretty sure my mid-life reinvention would involve literature or medieval history. My concept, was to use this website to discuss books on my way toward…
Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. A lot has been going on, which means there’s a lot to catch up on. And, I’ve been very busy. I need to rewind to the end…
With coronavirus infections continuing to rage out of control, I was wondering when the on-site field excavation class I was taking this spring was going to get canceled. Yesterday morning I got the email: field…
Pandemic aside, 2020 was a year of real progress for me in my pivot away from advertising and toward archaeology. Archaeology? This time last year it was Shakespeare/literature, and I was looking into master’s programs,…
In clearing out my mother’s house, I moved from her garage to ours several long-buried boxes of, um, let’s call them cultural artifacts from my adolescence and very early adulthood. Major finds included books (including…
Two new books just arrived, research fodder for a class paper I’m writing on archaeological excavations done at Johnson’s Island military prison. The Johnson’s Island site covers a 16.5-acre Civil War-era military prison camp on…
I’d always thought flint knapping was really cool. As a kid, I tried breaking rocks with other rocks, leading to a variety of cuts, scrapes, banged fingers and, occasionally, bashed toes (it’s complicated, but think…
A batch of sunflowers volunteered in the flowerpot by our front door, and I feel very much like this bloom. I’m not yet fully formed, but I’m on my way. It’s been a meandering journey…
I’m done with finals! I had planned to sit Biological Anthropology Friday and Cultural Anthropology Saturday, but my studying took longer than expected and by the time I was done it was time to get…