Research
Research.....that daunting word when you are a student knowing you have a paper due or a presentation to give. Hours spent in the library going through materials and old books. Or, research could be a scientist spending countless hours, days and years creating experiments that hopefully will lead to a breakthrough in medicine. As researchers we gather all we have read and learned in the hours of reading and experimenting to create a paper, presentation and an announcement that will change the world. Life experience is research, also. With knowledge and facts you have accumulated over your time on this earth, you can put yourself in a setting, observe your surroundings, imagine a by-gone era then try to connect the dots of facts, scrutinize details and come up with an actual retelling of a happening. That may sound weird, yet, it works. Recently my colleague and friend, Dr. Laurine Elkins Marlow, along with her husband, Bill, and I made a trip...