One of my favorite things and one of my least favorite things. Don't get me wrong, I still love my topic. Perhaps the biggest issue holding me back when it comes to finishing writing about it is that I love it too much to let go of, however briefly that may be before I have…Read more Dinosaurs and Dissertation Writing
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Novel learning
One of the components of job application materials for academics is the teaching statement. Given the amount of introspection needed, it is not an easy piece to write, although it is the perfect piece for stewing over indefinitely. Over all these years of learning how to make myself write (with varying degrees of success depending…Read more Novel learning
Tugging at my sleeve
When I met Popo (婆婆) on Friday morning, she was sitting out on the enclosed back porch in the sun, waiting with gifts for me. Jewelry, appropriately. The necklace and earrings are lovely, but the overlarge ring she then placed on my finger is a treasure. As Popo explained, it was her paternal grandmother's, given…Read more Tugging at my sleeve
On Writing
From the editorial preface to Mackay's From Far Formosa: "To a man of his ardent temperament and active habits prolonged literary work is the most irksome drudgery. He would rather face a heathen mob that write a chapter for a book." (4) -J. A. MacDonald While I haven't faced any mobs lately, there's plenty I'd…Read more On Writing
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