July 19th, 2019 – Optometrists and Ice Cream

Starting this pretty late today, at 10:19 am.  Not really feeling like writing a blog post today, feeling kind of down after Alexandra’s appt. with the optometrist. She wouldn’t let them shine the light in her eyes to check her vision.  They suggested we come back multiple times to get her used to the place, […]

July 18th, 2019

9:05 am. Yesterday morning I was working on reviewing papers for Nanoscale when I received a call from Mike Hunnicutt, a Duke chemistry alum on the graduate board of visitors. A committee of board members has been tasked with figuring out how we can further alumni engagement, and he wanted to talk about how we […]

July 17th, 2019 – searching for child care

Its 8:58 am. Got to work a bit later today. Kids got up around 7:30 and I didn’t bother to prepare my lunch or gym stuff before then. We sang along with some kids songs at breakfast, head shoulder knees and toes, wheels on the bus, itsy bitsy spider, 5 little ducks. All of Alexandra’s […]