love Glensheen Mansion, Duluth.

leaving for Duluth with my mom and two pups. Excited!

iPad girl at the moose cabin in Estes Park. #fb

Iowa State compadres @ RSA11 at National Center for Atmospheric Research. Cyclones always ftw.

me and @kgulbrandsen #rsa11 in Boulder. Love it here.

Kiddos! Cordelia pitched and won her softball game in Littleton. Now I'm switching back to being an academic.

Kiddos! 10-yr old pitched and win her softball game in Littleton. Now switching back to being an academic.

nice afternoon at the Flat Irons.

and this is crazy wonderful karma... I also got a new car today!

thank you, Mom and Dad!

"piss-poor phrasing." This is how my diss editor & co-chair metaphorically smacks me in the head.

just when I'm having the worst writing day ever, flowers arrive.

I will really miss living at my little place in Ames.

striding through the text -- dissertation metaphor.

I ♥ my dissertation fuel.

In my search for the elusive magic, writing is hard. But one word usually helps the process along.

fun with @baconred, @warnick, @dr_toth, @trauman, @bricoleur97, etc at Turner Field. Nice venue.

at Pemberton Plaza. @baconred is posing with Lee Honeycutt's doppelgänger
(ISU prof).

vertigo-ing on floor 47, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta.

endearing diss director Carl Herndl w/ 3 of his grad students, including @bricoleur97 & @baconred at R. Thomas'.