Order from Chaos

Today the Brave Astronaut Clan is headed for Hershey, PA for the Spring 2018 MARAC Meeting.  This is one of those occasions where the entire...

This is the week that I am in Pittsburgh for the Spring 2016 MARAC meeting, so it's only appropriate to look at the state in which the C...

I've been to a fair number of conference since joining the archives profession.  On occasion I have flown to these meetings.  There is o...

Tonight is the annual outing where I invite 200 of my closest archival friends to a baseball game during the Annual Meeting of the Society o...

Today is known as International Left Handers Day (and yes it's also the day after Mrs. BA's birthday).  It's also the middle of ...

The Brave Astronaut is wrapping up a trip through the Empire State this week, having attended the Spring 2014 MARAC Meeting in Rochester, Ne...

The Brave Astronaut Clan is on the road for another professional meeting.  LBA and and SoBA are along for the ride - but they're really ...

Last week was the Fall 2013 MARAC Meeting in Philadelphia.  Many of my colleagues (including Mrs. BA) work at the Smithsonian , which has ju...

Tomorrow the Brave Astronaut will depart the launchpad for Philadelphia and the Fall Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conferenc...

Tonight is the Brave Astronaut's last night in the Big Easy and the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists. I am celebrati...

Today is the first full day of the Fall 2012 Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) meeting here in Richmond, VA .  MARAC was la...

The title of this post is a frequent request of LBA and SoBA (they come by it honestly - I used to say the same thing to my mother all the t...

It is appropriate that we have reached California this week.  I am actually in the state, attending the SAA Annual Meeting in lovely San ...

I'm off tomorrow to the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists in San Diego, CA.  I'm sure there will be drinking.  He...

Yes, I'm still here. The highly anticipated Rapture came . . . and went. It would seem most of us are still here. Evidently it'...

As noted here last week, I finished last week in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the Fall 2010 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Con...

Tonight, I am making my way to Hershey, Pennsylvania (The Sweetest Place on Earth!) in advance of the Fall 2010 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic ...

I recently remarked to Mrs. BA how I missed the popsicles of my youth. My mother had Tupperware popsicle molds , to which one added syrup a...

Next week at this time, I will be in the middle of the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), which is being held thi...

After arriving safely in Wilmington yesterday afternoon, in plenty of time for my meetings in the afternoon (Thank you jfla!), I made my way...