#whatprofessorswear September 4 marked the beginning of my eighteenth year of teaching my own university courses. I've had a lot of first day outfits as a college instructor because I teach two semesters a year, and sometimes I teach summer courses. In the last few years I have noticed that more parents are posting first-day-of-school…Read more WPW: First Day of Classes, Then and Now

#whatprofessorswear Since my hair has grown in this year, I have had a variety of colors: black and white (really, I hid that as best I could by wearing hats), hot pink, copper, burgundy, stoplight red, and now a "fashion" color in the violet family (maybe something between mulberry and lilac?). Over the summer I…Read more WPW: Fashion Colors for Your Hair

GAP medium wash denim overalls Breaking news: I'm blogging again! I'm wearing overalls again! I'm using exclamation points again! That last one is probably not a shocker. Last semester I did not blog as often as I wanted to because I was barely holding it together. I used all of my energy for teaching my…Read more WPW: Overalls

Why read The Roller Coaster: A Breast Cancer Story? My top 10: There's a lot to learn from this book about breast cancer treatment. There's a lot to learn from this book about advocacy (as a patient and a person). I share a view on breast cancer from the perspective of a 40-to-42-year-old woman who…Read more Why You Should Read My Memoir

Photo by Carrie Shanafelt, The Cyclone, Brooklyn, New York I have been writing my cancer memoir for over a year. This month I decided to finish it. It is now the last day July 2019, and I am ready to start sharing it with the public. This post is the first step in that direction.…Read more My Cancer Memoir: Introduction

This post is more of a list than a thoughtful rumination, but seeing as how I haven't blogged in a while, I thought you might want to see what I am up to these days. By the end of June I am sending my revised introduction and the collection of essays in Transatlantic Women Travelers,…Read more Summer Reading and Writing

#whatprofessorswear Content warning: information addressing sexual assault My colleague in the psychology department emailed the campus to invite us to wear denim on April 24, 2019--this year's annual Denim Day. Denim Day is in its 20th year of raising awareness of sexual assault and claims about women's clothing. As the Denim Day website explains: For…Read more WPW: Denim Day