Amy Baxter

Yeah, I think that's one of the things that the people I've met are really good at is finding threads and then sort of pulling them until you both come to the place where you're together.

One thing I thought was interesting about our intersection is that most of my life and my scientific work has been kind of in chunks.

It's like I get interested in this thing and I do the thing and I publish the paper or whatever and then I move on to the next chunk.

And I wondered when you make a book or when you even make one cartoon, does that exercise whatever either demon is pushing you or whatever creative nugget?

Or do you still keep a thread that goes through all of them?

So it's the craft.

It's not the idea or the nidus of it.

It's really more the execution of it.

So you, and I'll let you ask questions too, but you have moved to a lot of different places.

And one thing I find about being in foreign countries, whether it's in your own country or just difference, I think that we know who we are because the banks of our river are made up by the things and the people that keep us in place.

And so when you leave those and you no longer have your banks, it can be very destabilizing.

Sure.

How do you get adjusted to a new environment?

And are there things you do better each time or things that are always disorienting?

Yeah, we used to think that...

Happy people can be happy anywhere.

And then we went to Dallas.

And it was really interesting because the values of the people around us were so different.

It really was hard to trust and feel common ground.

And it turned out it was much more what mattered to people that made us feel comfortable.