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Umps and Academics

I just finished Bruce Weber’s new book , As They See ‘Em, which is about professional umpires. As a longstanding...

Career Coach: More on the Mature Mama PhD

Psychology is a second career for me. I returned to graduate school at age 36, and turned 40 during my...

FIRST WE FEEL. THEN WE FALL.

"One wants glimpses of the real," wrote Harold Brodkey in his last journal entry before his death. "One almost never...

Developing sustainable faculty

The 2008 AASHE Digest came out last week. It's a compendium of short blurbs describing sustainability-related activities and achievements at...

Friday Fragments

-- I don't often get excited about amending forms, but if President Obama is able to simply the FAFSA in...

Math Geek Mom: You CAN Go Home Again

The first few weeks of graduate school, several facts became apparent. I am sure that I should have realized these...

Class war cease fire

OK, I can admit when I'm wrong. I shouldn't have used the term "social class" to refer to various strata...

Long Distance Mom: Idiot's Guide to Stepparenting

After being in a relationship with my current partner for almost as long as my marriage lasted, I decided that...