Thank You for 2013

At the top of 2014, I wanted to explicitly thank all my friends and family, in physical space as well as online, who followed and shared with me in my various adventures in 2013, such as:

• The publication of a short story in Surreal South ’13

* The display of a short story in …

OK, genealogy, and academic genealogy at that, are perhaps not the most stimulating of topics. But throw in scientific and mathematical giants such as Euler, Bernoulli, Lagrange, Poisson, Hadamard, and a cameo by Leonardo da Vinci himself, and what began as a dry exercise turned into a …

At practice tonight Coach reminded us of the following saying:

Yard by yard, it’s hard

Inch by inch, it’s a cinch

The idea is that for any lofty goal you have set for yourself–and you should be setting lofty goals for yourself–it can get overwhelming thinking about all the things you have to do …