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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…
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Writing never happened in a vacuum. These posts are about everything around it: summers without a schedule, children, travel, exercise, gratitude lists, tiredness, and the first weeks of the pandemic in 2020.
Some are personal. They are kept here exactly as their authors published them.
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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.
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Process-based Goals Create Progress
Every time I write something, a well-meaning friend asks me that. It makes sense: audience is key.
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Gratitude and Giving Back
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
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The Best Workout is a Done Workout
The best dissertation is a done dissertation. When you turn it into a book, “Good enough” is good enough.
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Resolved: Let’s Move
I have never been the most athletic person. The only marathons I’ve ever participated in have involved reading books or watching screens for hours…
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Cancer and Contingency
It’s been a while. Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but I have. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to sit down and put my thoughts to paper and…
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The Sweet Solitude of Summer
When I was a kid, my mom would walk into my room to find me passed out amidst villages of Weebles , Barbie dolls, and race-car tracks.
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Reminder: Breathe
Raquelle’s recent post really resonates with me tonight. I’m writing here somewhat unexpectedly, but unexpectedness has been a theme around here…
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Persisting (slowly)
I’m not a person who moves slowly. Growing up, I spent many years taking piano lessons and practicing for hours.
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The Smart Woman’s Summer, Part 4: The Siren Song of Summer
As with the season itself, my summer themed blog post has gone through a lot of edits. Most recently it devolved into one sentence that started…
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The Smart Women’s Summer, Part 3
Last year, I spent the summer months finishing my dissertation. I was a sleepless madwoman, constantly tapping away at the computer and pacing my…
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The Smart Women’s Summer, Part 2
I loved reading about Angela’s summer-so-far and her summer plans . My summer-so-far hasn’t been as exciting in some ways (yet crazy in others),…
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The Smart Women’s Summer, Part 1
Summer is in full swing and the Smart Women want to talk about what each of their summers looks like.
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An Introduction and Becoming the Wave
ALOHA readers of Smart Women Write! I am overjoyed to have the opportunity to connect with you and to write with a remarkable group of ladies on a…
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The Spaces In Between
There are life-changing moments, and there are life-changing moments. There are the ways you hold those life-changing moments in your memory: that…
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A Post-Ac Parent’s Reflections on Traveling Abroad
The week before Thanksgiving I was in Tokyo, Japan, with my husband and son. My husband had been invited to speak at a conference, and we joined…
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Balance vs Wholeness
In last week’s blog post , my colleague Tanya reflected on the rush of October – that “month of muchness,” as she keenly calls it.
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Tired
Last Monday, I was scheduled to post my regular contribution to the Smart Women Write blog but then I woke up to the news of Las Vegas, and I…
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Nature as Self-Care
We have a tradition of going on an outdoor adventure every Mother’s Day weekend. This year we ended up at the plateau known as Rowena Crest ,…
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Writing Structure in the Summer
So many of us smart women writers tend to have more unstructured time in the summers. I work at a University, so while the undergrads are gone,…
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Thoughts on Being a “Mama PhD”
Yesterday morning, Facebook reminded me this week marks the 2-year anniversary of my doctoral hooding ceremony. That’s right, I’ve been a PhD for…
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Some thoughts on Joy, Resilience, and Practicing Gratitude
A few weeks ago in early January, I was having a conversation on twitter with fellow PhD Lisa Munro and others about the importance of practicing…
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Let it Go
It’s been about two months since my son first told me that he knew exactly what he wanted to be for Halloween.