Pat H

After spending the weekend surrounded by a treasure trove of my birth family’s photographs and documents,  I was talking to a friend this afternoon who’s about to visit his parents for the holidays and is going to try to fill in…

Today NASA’s Kepler Mission confirmed the discovery of the first planet outside our solar system that might be able to support life as we know it. Dubbed Kepler 22b, it orbits around a star very like our Sun and within…

Commercial fishermen in California and the Nature Conservancy are working together on the Central Coast Groundfish Project to help protect declining fish populations and their marine habitat by developing sustainable ways of fishing. Five years ago, the conservancy bought out…

Now that the first of the lawsuits have been filed and a US Senator has sent an open letter to the CEO of Carrier IQ asking for more details about their tracking software, you may find yourself looking at your…

Inspired by Ten Bears’ excellent self-introduction and Bob’s blogging book review, here’s a bit of information about me: I’m a native Californian, always a city dweller (who loved playing cowgirl), a self-educated college drop-out, an avid reader and a literal-minded…