There is a French term I love: esprit de l’escalier. It translates literally as “wit of the stairs,” and means roughly “the concise and clever…
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JCP’s Dance of the Hours
Consumerism often confuses me. Statistically speaking, I am apparently taller than average for US women and (depending on what charts you use) either average or…
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I am very sad to report that the Women’s Spirituality program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology is being closed down. Apparently shortly after I…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Continue ReadingReading & voting: Williams’ “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place”
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…
Continue ReadingThoughts on V. Shiva’s “Staying Alive”
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…
Continue ReadingThe unexamined dissertation: not worth writing?
As some who read my blog may know already, I’m currently struggling with the process of writing my dissertation proposal. Despite writing being one of…
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Being a student on a very tight budget, I am particularly fond of restaurants with cards that give you a free meal after a certain…
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