Procrastadabbler

There’s a movement in psychology called “Positive Psychology.” It works to understand what people do in their lives to be happier. One of the things the researchers have found is that happier people take the time to identify those things in their lives for which they are grateful. My husband and I have tried to [...]

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I’ve been on the west coast for the past week hiking the Mount Hood area and then to the coast for beach hiking. As I walked, hiked, climbed, etc. I kept thinking about the things I wanted to blog about, and now that my hands are on my keyboard I can’t remember many of the [...]

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For the past many months I’ve been working on a spatial autoethnography in order to examine issues of race, class, and white privilege. I finally finished a draft and have set it aside. I still have to do all the citations and lots and lots of clean-up work, but I now have some shape to [...]

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The past few weeks I’ve been reading about racial identity construction. Then I drove to Tennessee over the weekend and took along audiobooks. My public library doesn’t have a wide selection, but I did manage to find a few intriguing books. One was The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I’ve never read it, but know [...]

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