One week into “remote instruction” mode, in which all 4 of us in the house are home due to our schools closing to staff and students, and I’ll share a few of my observations from a couple different perspectives. As I mentioned last time, it’s been interesting to see how…
Blogging the Pandemic: Intro
This series of posts is less for you than for me, but thanks for stopping by anyway. We’re living through historic times, and I would like to have a record of my lived experience as our country, but more specifically my profession and my family, faces the novel coronavirus pandemic…
My Blogless Year
…or, ‘And Nothing of Value was Lost’. Several months ago, I decided to do something I hadn’t done in over ten years prior: take a conscious, long-term break from regular (i.e., monthly) blogging. It didn’t start that way, of course (nothing ever does, does it?). I’ve been blogging in this…
Goals, Met & Unmet
For the last few years I’ve been participating in the Goodreads Reading Challenge. Not that I need to be challenged to read, as I usually enjoy it, but after a multi-year spell of not doing much reading other than for graduate school & dissertation work, it was fun to do…
Do Break the Chain
The summer I wrote my dissertation, I posted here about a productivity strategy called Don’t Break the Chain. Click the link for the backstory, but the gist of it is that it’s easier to maintain a habit if you keep at it – even for a little bit – every…