Just remember the rules: keep your shoes off the coffee table and keep your grubby little hands off my remote.

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So I figured, well, I got a little time on my hands, and, you know, while the kids are at school I want to come out and hear about the programs, I want to meet the students.

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The wind picked up a little, I cupped two hands around my steaming mug and laughed: Ethiopian beans from a Los Angeles roaster at the far ends of the planet.

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So there I sit every night in the dark room, my arms just barely long enough to reach each of their beds and hold their little hands.

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More of Slipher anon, but let me start by sharing this little piece of history (photo above), which I held in my hands during a tour of the Lowell Observatory archives.

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About two weeks after I bought it, it slipped out of my hands and crashed onto the hardwood floor in my apartment, effectively scrambling its little electronic brain.

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Ever since that day, I've grown a little bit afraid of connecting with the people I love -- with my heart, my hands, even my eyes.

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