Category: Lifelong Learning

  • Perfect – just what I wanted!

    Perfect – just what I wanted!

    I can see why it is important to have enough “stickiness” on the plate and enough support to avoid the loose strings. I am so interested to be able to see the inner structure -that looks disordered to me, but must make sense to the computer.

  • 3-D Printing at the Scholars’ Lab

    3-D Printing at the Scholars’ Lab

    Thanks so much to Ammon Shepherd at the Scholars’ Lab in UVa’s Alderman Library for the wonderful introduction to the use of the 3D printers in the Makerspace, a wonderful place to explore and play that fortunately for me is open to the community. I was excited to learn that printing a knitting loom to…

  • I voted in Albemarle County

    I voted in Albemarle County

    I hope YOU will remember to vote today in this very important election.

  • Why I Am a Millennial (at least for now!)

    Why I Am a Millennial (at least for now!)

    My birth year puts me in the Silent Generation, but I always felt that I marched out of that generation during the Civil Rights movement.

  • I Speak for Democracy

    I Speak for Democracy

    Today democracy is again at risk across the globe, with isolationism, nationalism, militarism, and xenophobia on the rise in many countries.

  • I Am WHO?

    The suggested topic this week certainly prompted a lot of reflection for me! For most of my life, I have almost never been recognized as myself, even if I might actually have been the person being sought. Once while I was a college student, a friend said that she could arrange a blind date for…