"I'm this guy standing on a planet. Really, I'm just a speck. Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck. To think about all of this. To think about the vast emptiness of space. There's billions and billions of stars and billions and billions of specks." Everyone's favorite science guy, Bill Nye, was the man who stated that, and it really sticks with me. Let's think about how true this really is. There are more than 6 billion people on our planet. The earth itself is 21,000 miles across. We, individually, really are just a small speck on our planet. The earth itself is also just a…

"A still more glorious dawn awaits, not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400-billion suns and the rising of the Milky Way."  -Carl Sagan Our whole lives, we have been here on our beautiful home of earth. It is a wonderful and a unique place, for it contains life. Life as we know it is pretty fantastic. We are capable of so much, so who is to say that we're stuck here on our beautiful blue dot? December is a month of fantastic miracles that happen every day. These range from snow all the way to those cookies that we leave out on the 24th disappearing. These occurrences amaze…

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." The man behind the quote is the late astronomer, Carl Sagan. What a fitting way to think about things at this time of year. We are just around the corner for my personal favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. During Thanksgiving, we all tend to eat a little more than we probably should. A plus of the season is that there is never any guilt about how much we eat. As I always say, "there are no calories in birthday cake, thanksgiving turkey or holiday ham." Whether that is true can be debated. Thanksgiving is a time …