Life & Self-Care
Now Is the Time to be Rude
A friend of mine from a writer’s group had to go to the post office. Here in Nashville, it often falls on customers to enforce social distancing…
2020
The last posts: goals for 2020, online teaching, a debate over citation, and two dispatches from the first months of the pandemic.
Life & Self-Care
Dispatches from Quarantine 2020
As I wrote on Facebook earlier, today is tentative. Today, I was supposed to start my (much-needed) two-week spring break.
PhD & Post-Ac
Dear Job Searchers: Don’t Forget to Have Fun
I recently had coffee with a friend before going to see the Oscar-nominated animation short films.
Teaching
Mindful Moments
In the past couple of years, I’ve tried to embrace mindfulness more frequently in my life. I tend to be on the go a lot, and have multiple to-do…
Art & Public History
When a White Scholar’s Work is Not Cited: 1619
I don’t need an excuse to talk about the 1619 project . It’s so exciting! Synthetic works like this, which center groups that colonizer-history has…
Teaching
Learning to Love Online Teaching
Last week was the start of my 2020 spring semester and although much of it was very familiar, it will be unique because it’s the first time I will be…
Art & Public History
Celebrating MLK Day in Nashville, TN
“… I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other, and they don’t…
Teaching
Unexpected Journey
If you’d asked me a year ago or five years ago if I’d like to travel to Taiwan, I’d have told you it’s not something I’d thought about.
The Writer's Life
Smart Women Write about 2020
Welcome to a new decade! To celebrate this transition, we are looking back on 2019 and sharing our hopes and goals for 2020.