Procrastadabbler

This weekend I’ve been working sporadically on the chapter that’s been hanging over my head for many months now. It’s gaining some kind of shape. It needs a lot of work, but I’m no longer discouraged.
The truth, however, is that when writing gets done, the teaching stuff falls by the wayside. The stuff that has [...]

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I’ve not been doing much writing lately because I’ve been struggling with figuring out what I want to say or write about. Writing turned into an obligation rather than a way of sharing my thinking and participating in a broader dialogue about the things that are important to me.
Today I saved an article from a [...]

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For the past year or so my stomach has been unhappy. In fact, my whole body has been experiencing just a general sense of malaise. I just chalked it up to being of a certain age. But I’ve been thinking about when certain symptoms appear and started tracking what’s going on. As a result I’m [...]

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I spent the last week or so analyzing data from a series of focus groups and interviews. This week I’m working on writing up the findings. It seems easy at the outset – as I look at my analysis, but then as I start writing I begin to better understand the subtle nuances that I [...]

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I’m contemplating my research agenda and my summer teaching load. I’ve come to the realization that trying to do too much results in too little being done.
For instance, I am reworking the summer course. It used to be taught by a different person, who did a fine job, but the readings didn’t work for me [...]

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