They stood there looking at the blackboard, craning their necks, staring at the equations and the calculations and the trajectories. The white men in their white shirts and skinny early 60s ties and the colored computer Katherine Goble Johnson. They puzzled over math they didn’t know — elliptical to parabolic trajectories. And then her eyes […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
Helicopters or Something
Sun, 8 Jan 2017, 07:05 PM (-06:00)
My brother: Four helicopters flew over our house again — the usual. Me: Black? Him: Olive. Me: Black olives! Him: Pizza. Me: Deep dish? Him: Grilled cheese actually. With tomato soup. Me: Ha! That’s what we had for lunch. No olives. …pause… Me: Our furnace is on the blink. Blower kaput. Lucky we got good […]
Frames of Mind
Tue, 3 Jan 2017, 02:04 AM (-06:00)
1. A purple hoodie. He was wearing a purple hoodie and running along the sidewalk. Two of his friends were nearby, one ahead of him looking back, the other running alongside. It was a sunny day at the end of the year. The holidays were just around the corner. And it was the beginning of […]