Category Archives: Inspired Moments

Have you ever had one of those moments when something pops into your head from out of the blue and seems to have some weight to it? Well, this is where I try to capture those moments and thoughts.

The Clutter In Our Lives

This morning while I was preparing to leave for work, I had one of those moments of clarity, where Truth just stands up and demands your attention. I have always been a bit of a neat freak when it comes … Continue reading

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My Great-Grandfather was an Extra-Terrestrial – Chromosomal Complexity Is Older than Earth

The other day I stumbled across a thread in one of NASA’s internal discussion forums where a few engineers were debating the finer points of a recent article in the MIT Technology Review that discussed a paper recently published titled, Life … Continue reading

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Be Still, My Soul

A few mornings ago on the way to work I was listening to the radio and a piece by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius called Finlandia was aired. Quite a beautiful piece of music in its own right. Mid-way through the piece, I … Continue reading

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Amadeus, Brains, Butterflies, and Spaceships …

Someone asked me a little while ago, “What music inspires you when you write?” I thought that was a very good question, and not having personally spent a lot of time considering why I ‘do what I do’, I decided … Continue reading

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Funerals Suck!

A few days ago I attended the funeral of a friend and co-worker’s wife who was in her early forties like myself. Losing a repeated battle with breast cancer, she left behind two daughters and a son, all under ten. … Continue reading

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Life Elsewhere in the Universe

I was monitoring one of the internal NASA social media channels this morning and was reading a thread dedicated to “Do NASA Employees Believe in Extraterrestrials?”. The premise of the question itself I thought was interesting and amusing, but some of … Continue reading

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — William Butler Yeats I saw this quote this morning and it really spoke to the core of one of my strongest beliefs; education. Because we … Continue reading

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Why Do I Write?

Some have asked me why I write or how I got started writing science fiction when it seems so far removed from the discipline of engineering and our widespread reputation of being horrible and uninteresting writers. While the latter still … Continue reading

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