The Hellish Handbasket

Do I have the word sucker written on my forehead? I guess there's one born every minute, and I'm it. I fear my naturopath thinks I...

I edited six paragraphs of my literature review tonight and got stuck looking for a citation for one messy, murky statement I made in a mome...

Today I took time to take a trot in the park. A lovely spring day is not something to ignore around here, because we won't have one agai...

At the career college, the term is winding down. Two weeks to go. In my Professional Development class, we are immersed in the tense and exc...

I told myself I wouldn't interrupt my writing to update this blog, but I couldn't help myself. I was just swamped with an overwhelmi...

Writing is like herding cats. Pulling teeth. Drinking vinegar. I'm trying to write my literature review. Forty to eighty pages is the go...

While I'm avoiding writing my literature review, I have the time to obsess about other things. I'm feeling somewhat fragile. The bes...

After weeks of Internet connection trouble, the monolith known as Century Link, arrived on my doorstep today and commandeered my Internet li...

So says my friend and coach (who lives in Phoenix where it was 85 yesterday, so of course she would be full of optimism). Actually, she didn...

My mother recently told me what to do to have more friends. “To have friends, you have to be a friend!” she said, using a tone of voice I re...

I'm working on an outline of the literature review section of my dissertation proposal. The project is daunting in scope. I have to take...

Even though I haven't yet received the thumbs-up on my concept, I'm forging ahead with the dissertation proposal. Some of the propos...

I'm feeling a little fragile. Thanks for the condolences. First Davy Jones and now Thomas Kinkade. I can hardly write, I'm so overco...

After the wettest March on record, the temperature has plunged. It feels like winter here again. A little snow, some hail, a funnel cloud or...

Today a colleague showed me a recent  article  from Salon about the “disposable professor crisis” in American higher education. In the artic...

I posted the third revision to my concept paper a few days ago, and I've been checking my learner home page a couple times a day for a r...

During the late 1990s and early 2000s I was enamored with self-help books targeted at creative people who were having trouble expressing the...

I revised my concept paper according to the suggestions offered by my chair and resubmitted it, a process which took less than an hour. Whil...

Today I sat in a meeting, looking out the window at an old cherry tree covered in white blossoms, and wondered if I'm going to survive t...

We have an abundance of fresh water here in the Pacific Northwest. Right now, as the meteorologists proclaim the wettest month on record and...