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 ReadingThinking just to keep in practice
I’m trying to write more often — it’s way too easy for me to get into a no-writing slump and procrastinate on my dissertation proposal.…
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 ReadingLiterarily denuded! :)
So I’m thinking about books and research, as I’m driving back home from turning in yet another handful of library books, several of which were…
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…
Continue ReadingClearing the decks to write
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 ReadingI have great friends. ;)
My friends are a delight — which is a huge relief when I’m cranky due to being ill or tired! I’m very lucky they all…
Continue ReadingGrumpy mutterings
I hate being sick. Hatehatehate it with the fiery passion of coughing exhaustion coupled with the urge to rasp out: “just kill me now!” I…
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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