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Career Coach: Should I Adjunct?
I taught for several years at a state school of fairly low rank and then taught at a very diverse...
Taking Children's Lit Seriously
We went to a lecture last night by Leonard S. Marcus, author, critic, and children’s book historian, who’d told a...
Drama Mama: One Rabbit
When I was a young actress in New York City my managers gave me an ultimatum. They said I had...
Perversely Enough, We're Upscaling
In conversation this week with someone who works in the 'student life' side of the college, I heard something I...
Motherhood After Tenure: Anxiety
When I was a girl, I took a trip to visit my grandparents in Florida. Leaving Buffalo, NY in November...
Foot-Dragging and Network Externalities
My college, like most, is struggling with ways to communicate. In this context, I don't mean that in the substantive...
... or what's a meta phor?
Sometimes, life hands you a metaphor which is just absolutely perfect. I think that's the case with the current meltdown...
Brevity Is A Virtue
I have something in the new issue of Brevity, the premiere online journal of concise literary nonfiction, if you're interested...