On a Tuesday morning, people crowd the chairs and couches,
pecking at laptops while sipping Toms Roasting Co. drinks.
So much of what I do is on the other side of a computer, just me
pecking away here
at my sticky
laptop in the middle of my pink 90s kitchen while Evelynn naps and the older tinies are
at school.
As other members of the panel — Ken Miller, physicist Freeman Dyson, Carl Sagan's widow, Ann Druyan, and science writer Margaret Wertheim — made generally polite observations about the tensions between science and religion, Dawkins alternately cocked an ear
at their remarks and periodically
pecked a few notes into his titanium
laptop, which glowed like a night - light on the stage.