Here, and gone again

I'll be leaving for Santa Fe tomorrow for the Santa Fe Science Writers Workshop, driving despite the ever-rising gas prices. The drive is worth the cost to me. Let's face it: If I wanted to save money, I just wouldn't go at all.

I've yet to pick a writing sample to take with me to be critiqued at the workshop, though I want professional guidance with all the silverspot butterfly material I collected while working on my thesis. I fear the workshop instructors would take one look at the jumble that I call a book-proposal-in-progress and snicker, and shake their heads, and say, "Give it up already."

On a happier note, my short article "The Dean of Beans" appears in the June 2008 issue of Psychology Today Magazine. I'll add a link once they make it available online.