Travelling and seeing new places can be expensive, but the biggest obstacle between me and seeing the world isn’t time or money. It’s gender. Let’s lay some groundwork. I’m a gender non-conforming woman. Although my gender identity coincides with the one I was assigned at birth*, the clothing I wear,…
“Well, what if something good happens?” Among the many improvements to my mental health for which I have to thank Steven Universe, the above quote ranks pretty high. It further develops a theme present in songs like “Here Comes a Thought” and “Let’s Only Think About Love”–the theme of acknowledging…
Sitting in a seminar on the skill of feeling grateful, I realized that I was feeling resentful instead. And I wondered why.
I promised you more about the new DuckTales cartoon, and, by Scrooge, when I duck-promise, I duck-deliver! I’m a fan of the old Uncle Scrooge comics with stories by the likes of Carl Barks, William Van Horn, and Don Rosa. For me, these comics evolved into the 1990-1991 DuckTales comics…
It’s that time of year again! The time when we all get to see how over-optimistic I was last January! Here we go with my goals for 2018: 1. How to better understand spoken German. Starting in March, I began listening to a learning German podcast every weekday: Slow German.…
Here are 10 things I learned in 2018. They are helpful in that they helped me; results not guaranteed for anyone else. 1. How to balance bullet journals and flexibility. I like keeping records. I like maintaining habits, planning out routines that help me achieve goals I want. However, because…
Hooray! It’s the end of the year! I’ve survived on caffeine and physical activity (and, okay, some help from my family, my spouse, my friends, and other people I love). I’m grateful and humbled to have so many Big Life Things squared away… … but I’m still gonna have a…
When I was in Hebrew school, our teachers warned us about the dangers of assimilation. I’ve almost forgotten how often they did this, mainly because even at the time, I didn’t take it seriously. Some of them talked about it like the mainstream white Anglo-Saxon Protestant society Borg were going…
One of the most difficult parts of creating assignments is writing the guidelines. No matter how clear I think they are, students will always bring to my attention some aspect that they find confusing. Sometimes, the confusion has to do with minor inconsistencies–fair enough, I should have proofread more thoroughly…
As university lecturers, my colleagues and I are sometimes called upon to make judgments on what’s fair. Should we let student A re-write the midterm? Is it right to excuse student B from class for a sporting event? If we had perfect information about the world, every call would be…