Me on medium

January 4, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

I’ve started a Medium channel to better represent my research interests, and how they intersect with my life as a parent with a mental illness. I’ll still post on here things that are more personal, and will try to do so at least once a week. I’ll also cross post here so the folks who […]

writers write but they must also read

December 22, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

I love to write. I love coming on here, translating my emotions — all my writing begins with emotion — into thought, thought into words. My thoughts, like most, are not linear in nature; they fill the space of my mind and require a certain type of wrangling to discipline them, to get them into […]

i thought i had something to write

November 11, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Often, I say to myself, “I’m going to write on my blog at least three times a week.” A week ago, that was my plan. I’m told that’s how to sustain readership, by having consistent “content.” How do you know you are a writer? Writers write. But I never follow all the way through. I’ll […]

it’s been a minute*

October 29, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

It’s been a minute* since I’ve been on here. I go in and out of writing motivation, usually when I’m doubting whether I have something to say that folks outside of my Facebook feed want to hear. I don’t know anymore what people want to hear anymore. We’ve been so separate for so long that […]

What’s Next? On the Academic Writing Process

May 1, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

I’ve finally made it to what I’ve been working toward for the last 11 years. I will be a tenure-track professor. Studying what I want. In the place I want to be. Around colleagues I like and that I can learn from. But What’s Next? Publish or perish. If you ask someone with a more […]

Remembering the Writer in Me: Depressed Edition

December 5, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

When I’m depressed, I often do (some of) my best work. Not creative work, but work work. Work that requires less mind and more brawn. If that exists on the computer. I write (and think, but more on that below) for a living. My ability to write well is key to my livelihood. If I couldn’t […]

NaBloPoMo No Mo?

November 16, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

My November NaBloPoMo effort has been piss-poor lately. Why? Because I didn’t feel I had anything to blog about. One of the goals of daily blogging is to create a habit of writing, every day, no matter what. It’s a trick that all productive writers know – it doesn’t matter if you don’t have anything to […]