My father, a Florida native and seasoned shelter-in-place hurricane survivor, texted me his grab-and-go list as he fled his home there: important paperwork, the dog, two outfits. I'm not taking any chances with this one, he said.
The roof of the concrete riverside bungalow was still there. Two walls held it up. Everything inside the house was gone, and every house on the block had been swept through.
I had overcome the odds, summited the mountain of academia to gain a place at the forefront of exoplanet science. All my dreams hung on the giant golden mirrors of NASA's multibillion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Not all of us grew up in this world, but we all live in it now. Those of us born after 1977 have never seen a cooler-than-average year. Since then the frequency of major hurricanes has doubled; while the incidence of wildfires in northern and central California qu.
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