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ABCs and PhDs: Balancing the little stuff (or, stopping for slugs)
Last fall I broke my pinkie toe. Already running late, I had rushed back into the house to grab a...
SCATHING ONLINE SCHOOLMARM
Rule One: Never make your reader laugh when she's not supposed to.SUNY Binghamton got blasted in the New York Times...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Black Belt!
Just under a year ago, I wrote my first piece for Inside Higher Ed. It wasn’t for this blog, which...
Moments of Truth
The indefatigable Lesboprof has a great post up about a couple of legislators from Georgia who are using the economic...
The car we need is not the one we're paying for
A while back, I said it would be a bad idea to bail out the auto companies. I noted that...
Some Meetings Are Actually Useful...
As the year has become progressively more surreal, I've been finding much more value in the occasional meetings I have...
AWP: Final
Look, I’m not a conference guy. I’m a walk in the woods guy, an afternoon tea guy, a thicken-the-stew-with-flour, homebody-underwater-Emily-Dickinson-multipledraft-Boston-Fern-natural-light-kids-on-the-lap...
Math Geek Mom: Finding a Voice
When I was in high school in the late 1970s, I was very good at doing well in my classes...