Mama PhD

I chose my first job out of graduate school for several reasons. The president of that university was a graduate...

I have spent the last few days in Vegas as part of an invited group of faculty at the National...

“I want to go to aftercare!” This comes up in our house periodically. The aftercare program at my kids’ school...

Two of my close friends, approximately my age, were raped when they were in college. One, feeling shame that she...

I ran into the chair of the Sociology department the other day as I came out of my Calculus class...

Ah, spring break! No school lunches to prepare, no early morning breakfasts to make, no lightning launches out the door...

(I originally wrote this column for LiteraryMama.com in June of 2004. I’m revisiting the topic, seven years later, to note...

Amid jokes about killing the fatted cheesecake (we're vegetarians), Ben returned home this week from his trip to England with...