The Astronomer's House

As the sun rises on another day of the new Administration it feels timely to raise the issue of our collective exhaustion. We are all feeling it.  And why not? We fought for a free and fair election, by leveraging all our might, and we won. Really. Regardless of your rooting interest in democracy...

As a child of the seventies and eighties I have the pleasure of being born in the dancing days that followed the last big wave of the civil rights construction period. A robust cultural moment when many of the spokeswomen and men had already been martyred, mainstreamed, or made to mark time as...

There is no neat and tidy way to sum up my feelings about current events. Highs and lows abound for all of us who earnestly want to solve big problems or at least mitigate catastrophe, in the natural and built environment. As government regimes shift along party lines there is room enough for...