I think today I’m going to do a bit more venting on my dissertation blues… and then tomorrow talk about what I think might fix things a little. We’ll see how it goes. So at CIIS there’s something called the “Principles of Community.” They’re basically a list of suggestions to keep in mind when talking…
Okay, time for more venting and dissertation blues. Haul out the tiny violins, please, and also everyone get ready to sing along with Arethra Franklin singing her wonderful “Respect”… Whew! Always love good, passionate music. So, now that we all feel better for that, let me get into my grumpy pants again. This log is…
Time for another 15 minutes (minimum) of writing, so I start getting back into the habit of doing so… The 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions is meeting in Salt Lake City, UT this upcoming October 15th through 19th. One of my sister scholars suggested several of us get together to present a panel there,…
I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to write down some of the issues I’m butting my head up against, as I write my dissertation. I’m not going to use names because hurting people isn’t my goal. I just want to vent a bit — and, should any present or future students in my…
I recently had something startlingly nice happen to me! There’s a professor I had in the past who’s a noted and accomplished author. She’s got enough prose and literature out that I always found her somewhat… not quite intimidating to talk to, but not easy to chat with. It’s not her fault at all, of…
I’m published again! It’s a very small thing this time, but once again it came from the heart. In the gorgeously illustrated She Appears! Encounters with Kwan Yin, Goddess of Compassion there is a short segment which I wrote. I would have liked to include more, but at the time which Sandy Boucher, the author/editor,…
Some years ago I had a friend with whom I lunched on a weekly basis. At that time he was on a job team that had something particularly difficult and complex to accomplish. This wouldn’t have been such a big deal except that, frankly speaking, the manager was terrible. He wished to hear only that…
I don’t usually use trigger warnings in my writing, mostly because I don’t expect that many people read my blog, and those that do have not asked me to please do so — which I’d be happy to? -but wevs at this point. However, I’m using a trigger warning this time for… hm. I guess…
As I write this I’ve just spent the past two or three hours sitting in the tire shop and waiting for a tire change. It was busy there; fortunately I knew it might take a while and planned ahead so I had my drink and one of my textbooks to read. The book’s cover is…
I’m reading Vandana Shiva’s Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, & Development for an on-line class on Ecofeminism which I’m TAing. The following are two comments made on the class forum at different times. While reading both the book and the forum comments, I was reminded of a study I read about many years ago (which means…