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#whatprofessorswear I hope it was a happy Halloween for you. Sadly, I only had one trick-or-treater (a precious three-year-old dressed as Snow White). Where I live it was a windy, rainy night, so that might have had something to do with the paucity of kiddos ringing my doorbell and asking for candy. I love this Read more

#whatprofessorswear It’s not only the leaves that are changing colors this fall. My hair is a new color every week. Every time I wash my hair, the color fades a little more, and the color has changed from purple to blue! The first picture was taken on October 5. The last October 23. It’s been Read more

#whatprofessorswear Last month I mentioned in a post that I always fail to remember to take a picture of myself at the end of the day. I was inspired by the pics a mom took of her daughter at the start of the school day and then at the end. I usually take my pictures Read more

One play. Two theaters. Two countries. Twelve years apart. Theaters matter. Sets matter. Staging matters. Acting matters.  A review of two productions of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. I won’t say too much about the plot in this review. This review is not meant to dissect Pinter’s play. Rather, this is a production review. You’ll have to Read more

#whatprofessorswear I tried out something new this week. I picked out an outfit to wear, and then I posted a picture of the skirt with two different tops and asked my friends to vote on which one I should wear with the skirt. See my Facebook request below: I asked for votes and comments, and Read more

In this blog post, I review Jessie Janeshek‘s 2019 publication, Madcap, a book of poems published by Stalking Horse Press. Madcap begins with a Buster Keaton quotation: “Tragedy is a close-up, comedy a long shot,” and the book divides itself evenly into these two vantage points. First up is the close-up, following that the long Read more

#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

#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

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 two lovely classes and going Read more

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