Over the summer, my life as a professor looks very different from the way it looks during the academic year. Sometimes summer looks like a break–I don’t get up and go to work every…
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Are you an introvert? If you need a healthy dose of quiet time every day and spend your weekends recharging at home in order to gear up for the work week, if you avoid…
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I’ve been writing for about as long as I can remember. The first piece of writing for which I received praise was a poem titled “Leaves,” which I wrote in first grade. The opening…
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Several years ago, I decided to take up yoga. I had two preschool children, a full-time job, I was working on my doctoral dissertation–I needed something in my life that wasn’t a source of…
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When you start a blog, one of the things you learn pretty quickly is that many people assume blogging leads to some form of income. (Why else would you do it, they wonder?) In…
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As a mom who worked full-time while my kids were small, I worried a lot about how the time I gave my career might have a negative impact on them. At the same time,…
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You’ve probably heard about this common time management exercise. Someone gives you a jar and a few big rocks, along with a bunch of pebbles and a quantity of sand. Your job is to…