This, That, and the Mother Thing

So, this week has been bad.   As an academic, there are certain rhythms to my life that I have taken for granted.  Our year starts in August...

Are you doing more work in your backyard?  We are.  And ironically, this is the year I said I was tired of doing so much work in the backyar...

We are doing ok. My husband and I both have jobs. I work at home. He goes in every day as an essential employee.  Our twins are protected as...

It's been stressful, y'all.  I don't think I feel anything differently than you do and I'm going to suggest you are feeling ...

Surely, you are saying this at some point. We are. I know my husband and I are old farts, but this song is right on. And, indeed, I spent m...

My lab had our second online meeting this week. Part of our discussion was keeping socially connected even while practicing social isolat...

I don't know if that reference is only relevant to Boomers, geeks, geeky boomers, or geeky Gen Xers. In any case, the world is about to ...

Two weeks ago--before I left with 15 students for a Spring Break study abroad trip to Berlin--I saw a few coronavirus cases in Germany and w...

So, while some parts of The Change that I've been going through are not really all that fun, some types of change are actually pretty g...

This is first in a series of Things I Know, crap I've learned that I want to share with folks that I forget to share with folks and now ...

I'm reading Rachel Held Evan's book, Searching for Sunday, and part of her awakening as a Christian is understanding how much of the...

Y'all.  I have become the Pied Piper of perimenopause, scaring the bejeesus out of all the women younger than I am by leading them down ...

I sent this in as an OpEd to our local paper.  It wasn't picked up.  And I can understand why.  It was really time delimited (the week a...

In all my free time, I'd really like to write a book about the Joys of the change of life, with the actual working title of What To Expe...

Last week, I was providing academic insight for an article coming out on "mommy blogging."  I'll post the link when it comes o...

I am updating and reposting my post from March 20 here . The updates: My US House Representative Alma Adams has reached out twice to A...