In the winter (I refuse to call February “spring” even if too many schools call it the Spring semester) of 2010, I was underemployed, lonely, depressed, and desperate. I was living in rural Kentucky, taking care of two very young kids and supporting a husband on the first year on the tenure-track. I knew no one. My immigration status meant […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. I have two main ways to be able to narrative and reconstruct the last decade: through my blog and social media, and through the lines on my C.V. In some ways, these two things feel divorced from one another – […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. I didn’t go to the MLA in 2011. But I did blog about it, and one post ended up going viral as well. I was, as the kids say, hot at that moment. It was a moment, alright, and I […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. I was BUSY in 2012. I kicked off the year in DC, at the invitation of the New Faculty Majority, a advocacy group for adjunct rights, to live-blog and tweet their first-ever summit. That evening, I went to dinner with […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. I’m going to start talking about 2013 by referencing a something that happened in me at the beginning of the 2012-2013 academic year. Writing these kinds of retrospectives when all you’ve ever really known is the academic calendar can be […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. I am now what could be considered Academic Twitter Famous. People read my blog, know who I am, send me messages asking me to write about issues they are facing on their campus, and I do, or I pass it […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. My writing perceptively shifts in 2015. Part of that is figuring out what to write about now that I am no longer a contingent faculty member (the main topic and lens for the majority of my posts). Part of it […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. The closer these reflections get to my present, the harder they are to remember. I blame my ADHD brain, but there is something about trying to remember events, moments, feelings that still feel like they just happened. My son was […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. Three (I almost said two) short years ago. If I thought 2016 was bad, well, 2017 was about to kick. my. ass. I don’t even care what I wrote that year, because my son broke his arm. Twice. The second […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. I keep saying it, but I can’t help it to be true – the closer and closer I get to the present, the harder these are to write. I can’t differentiate between the years, between the months, trying to remember […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. The last year in this. Which was just last year. Or, even, just a few short months ago. In 2010, my kids were three and one, and now they’re 12 and 10, tweenagers! They can fly on their own! They […]
Buy Learning to Breathe which focuses on mental health, and Twist, Weave, Untangle about my becoming a critical digital pedagogue. There’s a scene in Toy Story 3, one that will never leave the memories of anyone who watched it. You’re probably already picturing it: Woody and the rest of the gang of toys in a trash incinerator, the flames rapidly […]
