Vacations are bad for blog posts. Good in terms of gathering subject matter, but it takes me away from my beloved technology and thus my blog posts. On the good side, I only dropped my phone twice (although I did scratch the new screen cover), and got a picture of my mom’s goats looking demonic….

Today we went to New Hampshire to explore some historic forts and – I hoped – some tidepools. Unfortunately for me, when we arrived at Fort Constitution, I was greeted by this lookout. No, the concrete wasn’t the problem. This was: Those little white birds are terns. When you go near their territory, they dive-bomb…

So for the past several days I’ve been in the Great White North (aka Maine). We got incredibly lucky with warm weather in Bar Harbor, since I’m not a fan of the cold. A hike around Jordan Pond yielded a loon sighting and me nearly falling off the wooden path while examining egg masses in the bog…

So we finally got a paperback copy of ‘Hellhound Hunt’ for our very own, and because of a filesaving glitch when we were adjusting the cover image, some copies went out with the old cover (and title). So if you’re confused about why you opened your package to see ‘Black Hound Haunt,’ that would be…

Hellhound Hunt is officially published! Augh! It feels pretty unbelievable to have a book out in the real world for the first time, but here we go. I always wanted to be an author (don’t most author biographies start like that?), but most of my professional life has been scientific. My lab notebooks suffered most from…