“The Edge of Extraordinary” in Vela Magazine

by Amanda Giracca on August 21, 2015August 21, 2015

Excerpted from Vela Magazine: I had gone into science for the awe, but I eventually discovered that continuing on that path would mean that most of my life would be made up of statistics, entering numbers into databases, writing papers so dry that they didn’t feel like writing to me. Moments of awe would be […]

“Lives and Past Lives,” in Vela Magazine

by Amanda Giracca on January 21, 2014December 9, 2014

Long before I met Ben, and before I had that echoey apartment, I lived in a one-room log cabin that sat by a little pond in the woods. I lived there for two years, alone. There was no running water, no electricity. There was a wood stove and propane lamps and a little gas refrigerator […]