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Allocating Positions
It may seem weird for me to ask this now, after all these years, but how does your college allocate...
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Motherhood after tenure: spa porn
I called in sick today for the first time in 18 years of teaching (not counting when I had emergency...
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ABC's and PhD's: Book Club, revisited
At the beginning of November I blogged about our first meeting of the SS-MD-BC (second Sunday mother-daughter book club) my...
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Tick Tock
Last night I took The Girl to the local Father-Daughter dance, which is a big event for girls here in...
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Don't Be a Jerk
Spring may seem distant in a year in which 49 states have snow on the ground, but those coming up...
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A Taste for Language
An academic autobiography that's not at all self-centered? Scott McLemee looks into an interesting composition.
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Managing to change
According to the web newsletter Environmental Leader, the British consulting firm Verdantix has just published a report describing four strategies...
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The Fun of Novel Writing
I’d forgotten how fun, even exciting, the early stages of research on a novel can be. This week I’ve gotten...