I love direct flights. I especially love direct flights when I have created a schedule, with such little wiggle room that a single delayed flight could throw the best laid plans, burning, off of a cliff. I love direct flights because we arrived to Denver, CO, thirty minutes early, beating Ellen, who was driving in from Wyoming […]

Back in February, Lexi pulled together her female friends and colleagues in the Cincinnati film industry to make a group portrait with the talented women she often has the privilege of working with.  She thought there would be a handful of people willing to partake in the group portrait, but to her surprise, nearly 30 […]

As we traveled north to Washington, DC, the sun shone brightly as melting icicles clung to road signs and trees.  We went to the south hoping for slightly warmer temperatures and arrived on the coldest week of the year.  Oh well.  Our roadtrip to DC featured a stop in Richmond, VA for lunch at a […]

When Kelsey and I traveled to Vancouver to attend our first scientific conference, the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting, we had no clue what we were getting into. We were in search of paleontologists to include in our film and exhibition, but where to find them in the sea of geoscientists before us? With […]

When we visited GSA in Vancouver in the autumn of 2014,  we were a team of two artists and one paleontologist, all of whom were anxious to see how our collaborative project would be received. How would the scientific community respond to what we were trying to accomplish? Could we express the importance of this […]

How The Bearded Lady Project Came to Be I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. –Maya Angelou There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do. –Amy Poehler I hadn’t showered in three days. It was […]