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ABCs and PhDs: Meeting expectations?
Recently I received a phone call out of the blue from a long-time family friend, a graduate student my parents...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Snow Days, Sabbaticals, and Unstructured Time
I read a piece in the Chronicle recently about learning to use unstructured time productively. Or, that’s what I thought...
Math Geek Mom: Risky Parenting
Today I taught about Bay’s Theorem and Bayesian Statistics in my Advanced Statistics class. As I was lecturing, I talked...
Motherhood After Tenure: My Sabbatical Adventure
Last week I responded to one of those time-wasting Facebook memes that asked me to describe my life using only...
ABCs and PhDs: Balancing the little stuff (or, stopping for slugs)
Last fall I broke my pinkie toe. Already running late, I had rushed back into the house to grab a...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Black Belt!
Just under a year ago, I wrote my first piece for Inside Higher Ed. It wasn’t for this blog, which...
Math Geek Mom: Finding a Voice
When I was in high school in the late 1970s, I was very good at doing well in my classes...
Long Distance Mom: Lincoln and Darwin Turn 200
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were both born on Feb. 12th, 1809. Why is celebrating their birthdays important? Why should...