Burning Out in Higher Ed
If faculty were burnt out before the pandemic, they find themselves even more burnt out now. How could they not be?
Working Mothers Still Aren’t Okay
For working mothers to continue to have careers or be able to move back into the workforce, employers must recognize the pandemic’s toll on women. Working mothers aren’t okay. I know I’m not.
Wrenches at Your Insides
When I try to conjure images of what writing a memoir is like, I tend to come back to vivisection, the process of performing operations on live animals for research.
What to Read When You Want to Think about Survival
Books saved me again and again and again. They will continue to do so. But books about how we survive helped me patch some of those raw, jagged places that I hadn’t managed to fix on my own.
Hitting the Wall
Unfortunately, this wall was one that I’m familiar with and desperately try to avoid. The particular wall was depression, a disorder that I can never quite escape.
A Kind of Fairy Tale
She knew that she was bringing her life to bear on the stories. That she was placing her own burdens heavily on these fairy tales. That if the stories could bear the weight of her life, then maybe she could, too.