Happy anniversary to this blog! I started creating this website and blog just over a year and a day ago, and it’s been quite a ride. Between a concussion, starting in my fantastic alternative academic position, coming back to the French horn, injuring my horn-playing lip, and trying to find time for writing in the […]
Category Archives: Writing
Writing in the margins
The past few months have been off-kilter for me, in that I’ve been dealing with something personal I can’t talk about here. (Three cheers for a modicum of privacy in the internet age!) What I can talk about, though, are the challenges I’m facing as I try to write around the margins of a full-time job and […]
How not to write a blog
I have been looking back at an anonymous blog I kept in 2013 and 2014. What I found there surprised me: posts I still felt good about and posts I wish I’d never written, followed by a whole lot of wondering what I thought I was doing as I stumbled about in blogging-land. I hope I’ve I learned […]
Preparing in graduate school for the #altac possibility
My first piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Vitae site is now available: Alt-Ac or Bust! I’m excited to offer these ten tips for what to do during graduate school to prepare for the possibility of looking for an alternative academic or post-academic position after graduate school, should that become necessary or desirable. Although […]