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Up like smoke

I was on a campus recently, not too far from where I live. (One of the advantages of being in...

Long Distance Mom: Head Injury

The worst-case scenario if you are a long distance parent is that a medical emergency will happen when you aren’t...

Canadian Cold Front

An alert reader referred me to this story in the Toronto Star. Apparently, in response to loss of endowment income...

Everybody out of the tub!

While I was learning about the workings of colleges and universities, I ran into Harvard's management model, which was described...

Edible Books

There are many ways to play with your food, from making sustainable gingerbread houses to molding Jell-o buildings, but today...

Thoughts on Libraries

This weekend I got an email from a librarian/blogger taking me to task for paying insufficient attention to librarian blogs...

ABCs and PhDs: Playground blues

I remember the day it became painfully obvious to me that I was different from the other kids in school...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Why travel?

I often wonder if the academic conference is going the way of the dinosaurs. They are expensive, after all, and...