This Blog

Hello everyone.

I set up this website back at the tail end of 2013 for my fantasy novel after coming up with concept art with our team. My work commitments at Elf, our agency, kept me busy so I put writing my book on the back burner.

In the meantime, this blog grew, encompassing ideas and insights, with some aspects of my book as I explored ideas and places.

Years ago, I created a physics course for undergraduates and prior to that, taught some college courses and trained graduate students, professors, and research scientists. While I will not be teaching again formally, I consider this blog now my way of helping students and aspiring creatives explore various ideas and the creative process. I hope you find it useful and inspires you in some way to reach higher!

A Love of the Frontier

© Albert Bierstadt

Back when I was fifteen, I won a state medal for history and geography. At the time, an extended family member (my older cousin’s husband, a hardworking and successful software engineer) made fun of me, expecting me to only excel at math or strictly science.

© Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, oil on canvas

But the thing is, a love of these subjects is essentially a love of exploration and discovery, a thirst for knowledge, and a desire to understand:

• human origins

• human development and connections

• human choices and decision-making

• the scope and scale of what we’ve achieved

• where we have traveled

& specifically at home, in the United States, without a doubt —  a love of the frontier. : ) It is guided by a gentle curiosity.

Knowledge is not limited to a singular subject. It is helpful to have deep and specific expertise, no doubt. We live in a specialized world.
However, it is in learning many things that you understand better and better how things work, their origins, how they came to be and most of all, what is possible.