My latest academic piece is a chapter in an edited book on women in academia. It’s incredibly personal and was very difficult to write. The struggle I had with writing this piece differed from my normal struggles because it brought me back to a series of intense times that started in my late adolescence, with […]
Month: May 2017
A Pause to Refocus
It is the end of another semester. Final classes have been taught; projects have been assessed; dissertations have been read. While there is much research, writing, revising, preparing still to be done, there is also the need to pause…to breathe…to reflect. In some ways, this semester has gone by in a blur. Perhaps, this blur was […]
Note to Self…
It’s a stressful time of year. In the past 3 weeks, I have graded over 100 individual assignments (averaging 5-7 pages each), I have chaired 2 successful doctoral defenses (with minor revisions pending), sat on a 3rd doctoral committee, submitted 2 manuscripts, conferenced with 17 cross-curricular groups on their final projects, recruited in 4 classes […]
Being Intentional
I waste a lot of time. For people who know me, this may seem like a surprise as I also get a lot of things done pretty efficiently. But, the truth is that I spend a lot of time negotiating with myself, distracting myself on Facebook, stressing about small decisions, worrying about what people will […]