OVER THE RIVER: This is going to be a short one, as we spent 7 hours in the car today.  The reason for the lengthy drive was a visit to Sile...

FAMILY PORTRAIT: As I was working on cookies this morning Annabelle was creating a family portrait. She made a pony for each member in the...

Photo credit: NASA - I've always loved this shot of Star Trek creator and cast (sans Bill Shatner, guess he was busy) alongside prot...

    Image Credit: NASA PREDECESSOR: Here at MPA we spend a lot of time talking and thinking about the International Space Station. We ...

     Image credit: NASA UNDER REPAIR: This weekend, we watched as a hasty spacewalk was conducted to fix a rather alarming ammonia leak o...

  FLOATERS:   Yesterday evening we finally got around to using a Groupon we'd bought months ago for a two-hour rental of an electric...

MATH MARAUDER:   We were back up at the Shoreline campus today for CJ's second full day of  'keep the state' happy standardi...