I never signed up for this…..and one of the major items on that list was cancer.   So you’d think—and  I certainly thought—if I was fortunate enough to survive, the last thing I’d want for the rest of my life was to have anything to do with cancer ever again. I never would have imagined […]

She studied the stars—and no star shines brighter than she did. When Susan Niebur died today, the blogosphere lit up with memories, tributes, and love. After my last few weeks of sadness, I planned to be writing about something cheerier–but right now I can’t write or think about anything else. Susan was an astrophysicist, one […]