From Alaska to Ohio and Kentucky

Glacier in Alaska. My friend Ramona took this.

Here is a moose in Alaska. You can't go to Alaska without seeing moose AND photographing it.

Here are my nephews. Lori had the baby about a year ago and I had never met him. The older one I hadn't seen in two years.

Cincinnati golden arch bridge.

School got out on Thursday the 27th of May. I flew to Alaska the 28th. I came home June 1st. I flew to Kentucky on June 2nd. It was a real whirlwind of traveling. Brian couldn't come with me because he had internship hours to do for his master's degree. So in Kentucky/Ohio, it was me, and a rental car versus the road and the summer storms. Very scary, but I think I became even tougher. The purpose of the Alaska trip was to participate in a works in progress research consortium. The purpose of the midwest trip was to present my almost 2 year master's thesis at a major conference before it got too old to be good research. I barely made it. And I was delighted that everyone loved it at the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference. When I was done being an academic, I met my sister, her husband, and her boys. That was the best part of either trip.

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Wrapping up the Year (and Decade)

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