In the 4 weeks after 9/11 I wore a headscarf to school. I was 12. I did it because I had heard on the news Muslim women were being shot at for wearing visible symbols of their faith. I thought it was the most unfeminist thing I could think of to attack women for what they […]
Continue reading →One of my favorite things about geology is how much we don’t know. For example, the earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old, but the oldest rock we have ever found is 4.28 billion years old. That’s 260,000,000 years we don’t know anything about. 260,000,000 is also longer than the amount of time it […]
Continue reading →One of my transitional moments between childhood and adulthood was when watching a nature program about caves (yep, you know the one). And watching people have to scramble over sharp rocks and use harnesses and ropes to get places, I realized: caves are not made for people. To that point, most of the thought I’d […]
Continue reading →After I was in Jordan in February 2013, my Mom and I went to Lebanon. I wrote a bit about it then, but didn’t get into the rock-fun we had. On one of our day-trips, generously arranged by our family-friend Adla Chantila, the Director of Finance and Information Technology at the Al-Mukasad Foundation, we visited Qozhaya, the Monastery of […]
Continue reading →Jordan is a desert, if you didn’t catch that. And like all good deserts, it comes with great sunsets. Unlike all deserts, it also has a massive body of water in the middle of it. Undrinkable, over 1000 ft below sea level, but the Dead Sea is a body of water. Even if you can […]
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