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The Thing About Good Intentions…

I started last summer with the best of intentions. Despite, or maybe because of the pandemic, I was going to do ALL the things. We were in lockdown so there was plenty of time to redo the website and keep up with my blog. Yeah, well, if you look around here, neither of these happened.…

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It has been a while

I hadn’t realized that it has been quite this long since I’ve updated the blog. Oops! I’m going to try to be more consistent, I promise! The world as gone a bit crazy since last I posted. My day job as a University professor was upended last spring when all classes transitioned to online and…

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New Year, New Goals

For those of you who looked at my title and said “But it’s only August! New Year’s isn’t for another four months. Did you miss schedule this post?”: No, because for me the start of a new academic year is really my new year. Traditional calendars and planners: For number of years, I tried to…

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Forgiving Myself

Monday was the last day of my summer class and part of the reason that this blog post is late. When I sat down to write this blog post last week I was really struggling with the fact that I wasn’t going to complete my goals for the summer, so I set it aside and…

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It isn’t hoarding if it’s books

Summer tends to be when I catch up on all the things that I haven’t had time for in the previous few months. Tops on my list has been tackling my to-be read books. I have lots of books to read. I don’t have a stack or a shelf, I have two full bookcases and…

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The Not So Lazy Days of Summer

Like many, I entered academia hoping to spend my summers sipping boat drinks on a sandy beach while reading my way down the current bestsellers list. Something that my advisor neglected to mention (among many other things) was that academics really don’t get summers off. We might not be teaching full time in the summer…

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