And I’m Off!
Currently, I am sitting at the airport with my overstuffed carry-on waiting to board my flight to Newark. From Newark, it’s on to Stuttgart, Germany, and then Tübingen, where I will spend the next two...
View ArticleMid-Year Resolutions
I generally don’t do New Year’s resolutions. Having lived most of my life on an academic calendar, January feels like the middle, not the beginning, of the year to me so I don’t much care about New...
View ArticleFighting the Cranky
Partly because it was the first week back in the office after a fair amount of travel and partly for reasons I don’t want to get into here, last week was a somewhat rough week in the office, and by the...
View ArticleGetting Fit (Hopefully)
In a recent post, I wrote about setting mid-year resolutions. One of these was to get in better shape (how original!). This is, of course, a pretty common resolution and an easy one to fail at (I have...
View ArticleTwo Weeks In and I’m Still (Barely) Kicking
The Bod Pod at UMKC’s Swinney Recreation Center As I mentioned in a previous post, I started working out with a trainer a couple of weeks ago. Our first session (which I wrote about for the Women’s...
View ArticleAugust Report: Slowly Getting There
Yesterday was September 1 and today is Labor Day (yes, already!) — to me, that means summer is officially over (despite classes having started two weeks ago) — and it’s also time for an update on my...
View ArticlePulling Back From the Edge
Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s recent post on burnout, got me to thinking (or to be precise, continuing to think) about my own recent case of burnout. In particular, this resonated: In order to be genuinely...
View ArticleTransformations
It’s been a while (September, in fact) since I reported on my fitness project, so now seems like a good time for an update, especially since we just did another Bod Pod and there are good results to...
View ArticleWorking Out on Campus
One of the questions people have been asking me a lot (other than “why?”) since I started my fitness project is how I like using UMKC’s campus recreation center to work out. Often, the implication is...
View ArticleStill Not Real
Maybe by the time you read this, it will feel real. That I am traveling to Africa for the first time (Senegal, to be precise). But right now, writing this on the plane (instead of sleeping. Ugh), I...
View ArticleUpdates
Well, I haven’t posted here since January (if you want to know how the Senegal trip went, check out our Senegal site). Going to try to get back into it — lots of good stuff happening, including a cute...
View ArticleCFP: Women’s & Gender Equity Book
Women’s and Gender Equity Centers Volume Call for Chapter Proposals It’s been nearly 15 years since Sharon Davie published the landmark volume University and College Women’s Centers: A Journey toward...
View Article2016 Knitting Wrap Up
One of these days I need to write up the story of how I came to knitting — and how quickly it became an obsession, but today I want to do a quick wrapup of 2016. As of today, I’ve finished 15 projects...
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