It seems time has slipped past me, as this is my first blog post in over three years. I created this blog during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic while working from home. Perhaps I started it to put down a record of my life with all of the unknowns that were swirling around as far as infections, death rates, etc.

I have always been drawn to old things—letting myself be transported to their time—not imagining visually but rather emotionally.

Meeting Dr. Layne became a defining moment in my life. It was because of him that my interests swung to the more scientific. He decided that my mole king snake find was important enough to document, and he began writing up a range extension paper for publication and invited me to as co-author.

I was first introduced to Dr. Edward Fuller Bigelow 76 years after his death. I began working at the Museum nearly six years ago.

In the immortal words of John Denver,

“It's been a good life all in all / It's really fine / To have a chance to hang around”