Taking some time away from the blog to deal with a heavy workload! See you June 7! (Updated May 10 to reflect new working timeline. Hope you’re all doing well and able to stay safe out there!)
As I’ve mentioned before, the first quarter of the year is my worst quarter. I get sad and listless during during short winter days, we “spring forward” into exhaustion, Winter semester is somehow more difficult than Fall, and, oh, hey, it’s still a pandemic and we’ve been under full lockdown…
*** This blog entry discusses thoughts about the possibility of becoming pregnant. Please consider this a friendly content warning so you can make your own decision about whether to read further!*** So because Husband and I are of a certain age and have to consider what we want out of…
Make fun of amateur improv performances as you will, but one of the most important ideas I’ve learned came from improv training: “Yes, and…” I competed in the Canadian Improv Games as a high-school student, and that’s when I learned a lot of standard improv concepts and exercises. “Yes, and…”…
As a writer, I love how Tamsyn Muir’s Harrow the Ninth (Locked Tomb Trilogy #2) is a genius masterclass in writing stories with heavy elements of grief. (There were a lot of other things I love about that book/series, of course, but that’s not what I’m rambling about today.) (no…
I haven’t added one of these blocks in a while, because it seems ineffective to repeat what I’m doing each post. That’s because addressing anti-Black racism as a white person requires not a couple one-time changes but long-term shifts in practice and thinking. I’m still working hard on making my…
Whether we wanted to or not, we all learned a lot in the past 12 months — about ourselves, about how we react to unprecedented events, about the strengths and faults of the communities we live in, about epidemiology for laypersons — like, SO much. And that’s on top of…
We’re in the home stretch of 2020! As with my previous entries this year, I’ve tried to focus on things that are available to anyone, not people or circumstances I’m lucky to have in my life. Hope you’re all hanging in there too! This quarter, I’ve enjoyed: 1. routine At…
As a university instructor, I’ve struggled with a lot of professional challenges during the pandemic, but the biggest one has been setting boundaries. I know that many throughout the education sector — from preschool teachers to postgraduate supervisors — face a similar dilemma. We want to do our best for…