Mislabeling Myself
This is a confession. I have been mislabeling myself for years. There are many things I have said that I am and that I am not. One of them is that I do not have a science brain. I finished reading a book this morning that made me say I MUST to stop saying that about myself. Yes, this is fiction and not a textbook. The title definitely tells the reader what they're about to read. It really does include some actual lessons in chemistry. It gave me horror flashbacks to school when I had to learn the periodic table (very little of that stuck with me because I was memorizing and not actually learning). It is also about the chemistry we are around every day - and I'm not just talking about air or water (my less science-y words). It's about the chemistry that draws us and binds us to people, places and things. You know, life. It made me wonder why have I always thought science is so hard to understand? Figuring it cannot just be me who put that label on myself, I hit th...