Is This What My Kids Think of Me?

"He was a real nuisance when I was taking high school physics. It was the classic thing…you ask for help and all you really want to know is the answer to problem 5B and he wants to explain it to you."

Presis Drell, on being the daughter of a physicist
San Jose Mercury News, December 18, 2007

I read this, as reprinted in the February issue of APS News, and couldn’t help but laugh as I saw myself. I’m a long way from being Sidney Drell, but the same love of physics is there and the same fascination with nature that makes me (over-)explain things to my children.