It has been a very full quarter. I anticipated this fullness prior to the start of the quarter and took some time to recenter myself and remind myself who and whose I am. Then, I came back home and jumped into a quarter full of teaching, the major conference in my field (the Annual Meeting […]
Tag: Humanity
Finding myself
It has been a hard academic year after a couple of years of significant transition. I have felt so incredibly far from myself. And so, I am even the more grateful to find myself at home, in Bordeaux, again. When I was 19 years old, I first came to Bordeaux, France, as an undergraduate student […]
What is Lost; What is Gained — A Reflection on Winter Quarter 2026
Well, I didn’t think that the first 10 weeks of 2026 was going to go quite the way it did. I started out the year on a way to a diagnosis of Graves Disease, clear that I felt unwell, but unsure why. As I enter my fourth week on medication, I am beginning to […]
Weight, Wait, Don’t Tell Me…
I have been carrying a lot of things for a long time. The weight of it all is exhausting. I rarely notice as more and more gets added, little by little, to the load. Often it is me adding things to the load as if it does not exist. The load feels indistinguishable from my […]
Holding Space and Holding Still for Humanity
I am a runner. In my past, this was literal. I ran cross-country and track in high school and half marathons for several years as an adult before it became more harmful than helpful for my body. What I loved most about running that distance was that, after running for a while, I couldn’t think […]
Unwellness & Opportunities for Unlearning
I’ve been reading mimi khúc’s dear elia and thinking a lot about unwellness in this new year (by the western/ solar calendar). Many things have struck me from the book, but particularly the idea of systemic or structural unwellness which reproduces different forms of unwellness among us all, and diverse types of suffering. Systems (and societies) […]
When It Rains…Final Reflection Fall Quarter 2025
It’s rainy and windy in Seattle right now. I try to take the opportunity at the end of every academic term, particularly those during which I teach, to engage in reflection. When I was younger and stuck inside during occasional heavy rains, watching the rain fall on the world outside, I would also reflect. So, […]
Gratitude & Mourning
Yesterday was Thanksgiving in the US, which is also, for many indigenous communities, a day of mourning. As someone who knows both grief and gratitude (especially in this time of the year) and who is working to better come alongside my indigenous siblings, as a migrant settler, I have spent the last few days holding […]
The Power of Reflection
It’s been a bit over a month since I’ve written an entry on this blog. While that, in and of itself, may not seem particularly significant (I’ve gone longer without writing here and I’ve been writing in other ways and working on other projects), I can feel the difference in my heart and mind. This […]
Tea, Time & Carrying On
Two weeks ago, at this time, I was sleeping after a day spent traveling to my father’s ancestral village to add my generation’s names to our family genealogy book. When I awoke after this sleep, I would travel to a different historic village, one preserved for tourists as well as cultural heritage where I would […]