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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Setting goals
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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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…
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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…
Continue ReadingStruggling with defining personal ethics
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…
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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…
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 Reading“Toward A Queer Ecofeminism” by Greta Gaard
The following is a quick review of an article read for the Ecofeminism class in which I am a TA — yay! I’d like to…
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Finally had a bit of a breakthrough on my dissertation proposal — hallelujah! Working now on getting a dissertation committee Chair, and figuring out all…
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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