I was desperate on the last day of summer. We had just finished breakfast and the kids were staring at me with that "ok-what's-next?" look. I rummaged through my craft bin and tossed a balloon and a science picture book to my eight year old and took another swig of my twice reheated coffee. School couldn't come fast enough. I sat back watching them get excited about blowing up a balloon and got ... Read More about A Recharge Realization…just what I needed.
Our trip to Inner Space Cavern
We decided to squeeze in one last vacation before school starts so we squeezed ourselves into a cave at Inner Space Caverns in Georgetown, Texas. I remember seeing caves as a kid in other states but I had no idea the amazing caves that existed only a few hours from us! Inner Space Caverns is a karst cave (meaning it formed when water dissolved limestone rock over time) and was discovered in the ... Read More about Our trip to Inner Space Cavern
Our trip to Spindletop
How is it possible that we have two weeks left until school starts? We've managed to move our home 100 miles east, gone to an amazing VBS, seen both sets of grandparents, went to the beach, checked off experiments from our summer bucket list, and launched the second book of Halley Harper. Whew! (Truth be told, I am now nursing a crazy cold that has hung on for almost a week now...and left me ... Read More about Our trip to Spindletop
Halley Harper, Science Girl Extraordinaire: The Friendship Experiment
If you are a Halley Harper fan get excited! The second book in the series has released today and you can grab your copy here. I am so amazed that it has already hit several #1 Amazon categories since it's publication! I would love for you to read it, leave an Amazon review, share the book on social media, and most importantly give it to your favorite science girl (and boy) ... Read More about Halley Harper, Science Girl Extraordinaire: The Friendship Experiment
Book 2 Announced! Halley Harper, Science Girl Extraordinaire
When I started writing this blog in 2014, I had several friends ask me if I could write a book for their daughters that would encourage them to continue loving science. I thought back to my childhood and realized that I never had a science-loving girl hero in all the books I read growing up. Sure I loved Punky Brewster, Pippi Longstockings, and Encyclopedia Brown but I wanted a girl hero that used ... Read More about Book 2 Announced! Halley Harper, Science Girl Extraordinaire
Abracadabra…science!
Have you ever seen a magic show and wanted to know the secret behind it? Surely, there is science behind the slight of hand and the illusion, right? So, last week we decided to put on our own 'science-magic' show (complete with the music from the Greatest Showman, of course). Now, a magician never reveals their secrets but good news, I'm not a magician, I'm a scientist. So we found a few ... Read More about Abracadabra…science!
