Adventures of a Midwestern Girl in Sunny, Sunny California

I don’t subscribe to the notion that I want the president to be someone I could see having a beer with; I think that is an all around poor reason to vote for a candidate. That said, I suddenly see the appeal of having such a person in office.
Seeing this picture and so many [...]

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
(To do this [...]

The concept of the “booth babe” has been familiar to me since 1999 when I got an Expo pass and went to the E3 convention in L.A. for the first time. These are the beautiful women who are hired to work at trade shows to lure attendees into the booths for specific companies/products. I [...]

Having completed our tour of Tennessee, it was only fair that we keep the camera at the ready for our trip to Illinois. Let the snarky comments ensue.

I’m sorry, but what does this even mean?

You can barely see the joke here, but Steve insisted on taking this picture. In real life, it is one [...]

Steve and I needed something to entertain ourselves as we toodled around TN over our Christmas visit. We decided to capture anything that caught our attention, looking for visions that were, perhaps, representative of a different way of life than the one we’re used to. Nothing like a little caustic sarcasm to say “Merry [...]

I’m jumping on the Twitter train. I had been putting off starting up my account because I wasn’t sure I could quickly get the feed to show up on this here blog; I have to manipulate the HTML code to change any layout on this page and I haven’t done anything in a while. [...]

Every so often, an Internet quiz comes along that I simply can’t resist.
I would not fare well as a wife in the 1930s.

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As a 1930s wife, I amVery Poor (Failure)
Take the test!

I am, however, a superior husband, although not very superior.

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As a 1930s husband, I amSuperior
Take the test!

As I was walking across the street from one of our office buildings to the other today, I saw a kid, probably around 12, crossing the street. He was in shorts and a t-shirt and was barefoot. He was coming from the 7-11 on the corner and was carrying a big Slushie, a [...]

I’m happy to say that full access has been restored to the POPLINE database. Once the Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found out about the restriction, he reversed the decision immediately. The database is now fully functioning. Today, he released a more detailed accounting of how and [...]

There are few things that raise my ire like political interference in science. Here’s a doozy for you.
POPLINE, “the world’s largest database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues”, is funded by USAID.
I received a [...]