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Following the rules
This weekend I found myself in the neighborhood of my favorite gourmet cookware store, and with no kids in tow...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Service and Administration
Two posts on Inside Higher Ed caught my eye the other day; one, from The University of Venus, on being...
The Furor Over the Claims on Chinese Mothers
When a reader sent me this link I thought at first that I had accessed the Onion. It’s not that...
Math Geek Mom; Squares and Diamonds
In geometry, we study the “Euclidean motions in a plane”, which include translations (sliding a figure across a plane) as...
Motherhood After Tenure: Why I did not attend the MLA
Last week Inside Higher Ed published an anonymous piece by someone who has decided to leave academia entitled, "Because." The...
ABC's and PhD's: Play
When I was in elementary school I hated school recess. A list with a rotating schedule assigned each classroom to...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Starting Fresh
One of the great joys of academic life, it seems to me, is the opportunity for fresh starts. New semesters...
Planned Obsolescence
When my son was around ten, we discovered that we could access Jay Leno’s headlines on the computer. Since we...