Science's Less Accurate Grandmother

I was running an errand the other day when the announcer lady on our local NPR station (WUSF) had to read a sponsorship during All Things ...

If you went back to my old LiveJournal (don't), you would discover that when I was in college, I probably talked more about and treate...

When my brother Andy and I were kids, we had a lot of LEGO. Andy was always better at building than I, but I was the storyteller. Together, ...

When I was in grad school, I was heavily involved in graduate student government. I spent a year as senator for the English graduate student...

When you're a Mollmann, everything is hard work-- especially relaxation. I was reminded of his recently by finding a departure "s...

One of Hayley's and my concerns about parenting has been screen time. I try to not judge, as someone who has only been a parent for ni...

Like most hairbrained things I did in high school, I think the Science Fiction Club can be blamed on Chris. I don't know how or why ...

This happened to me some time ago, but back then I didn't blog about actual life events a whole lot; I recounted the story to someone a ...

When I was in grad school, I used to workshop my creative writing with a group of fellow graduate students. I think it was when we were doin...

Some people, I think, are born yearning for a road trip, born with the desire to hit the open road and discover America. Though I went on ...

Jim Downie (right) at Gethsemani Abbey from the summer 2017 St. Xavier alumni magazine Like a lot of kids, I went through a number of po...

I like to say my first fan love was Star Trek , but my true fan love was Doctor Who . That's true to an extent, but it's not complet...

When I was in the fifth grade, I wanted to be an astronaut. (Maybe we all do.) My teacher told me that that would never happen: I was not fi...

When I was a kid, there were three of us, and our mother was a stay-at-home mom. So, I am convinced it was her mission to pack us off to as ...

Kids, I know, go through "what do you want to do when you grow up"s on a pretty frequent basis. Or at least I did. I definitely ...

My father has several pieces of advice he trots out on occasion. One is to keep your car clean, so that when things aren't going well,...