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Mothering at Mid-Career: A Farewell to Helicopters … Maybe
Did you hear the news? Over-parenting is over. So decree the arbiters of lifestyle trends — or, at least, Lisa...
Town
Sunday evening, I was driving with Mrs. R. in a town near our farm. We were proceeding down what used...
Career Coach: Going Back to Grad School
Dear Susan, Seven years ago I started graduate school, a year after I had gotten married and moved to a...
Monday Musings
In discussing a nearby park, TG asked me “why did they put a hill there when they designed the world?”...
What's the Matter with Rory?
My acquaintance Rory has a Ph.D. in American literature and is an administrator and a poet of sorts himself. At...
Math Geek Mom : A Mother Lion Does Statistics
When I entered graduate school, I once proudly proclaimed to someone I had just met that “I don’t want to...
Assessing Professional Development
Most colleges set aside at least some 'professional development' money for faculty and staff. The idea behind it is that...
Waxman-Markey Secrets Revealed!
Is it the road map to a brave new world? The end of Western civilization as we know it? Both...