Why I’m staying home for the April 8 solar eclipse

A thin crescent moon hangs in a dark blue sky, fading to a dull orange near the horizon, behind a stone, iron-domed, courthouse with a fish weather vein mounted at its peak. the silhouette of tree branches intrude from the left.

BLOOMINGTON, IND. — I did not expect to be where I am today.

As a space reporter, I have spent the better part of the past decade floundering back and forth about moving to Florida to live on the Space Coast, where I could attend all the rocket launches and put myself in the thick of where so much space news takes place. But alas, for a number of reasons, both personal and professional, I have remained content where I am.