Writing

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?

a table crowded with laptops, coffee mugs and papers

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.

an old, beat up white door with a red hand print on it

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.

a tiny sprout growing from a crack in the ground

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.

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.