Twenty years ago, in my undergrad days, this would have been the point in Thanksgiving weekend when my sister, two brothers and I would make the drive from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to my parents’ house in Green Bay. The rest of my eight siblings and their significant others also would travel home for the [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Thanksgiving Grad-itude
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Time to Bring in a Professional
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Accepting help, Duffy McMahon, Stress management on November 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My son, Noah, asked me tonight why I’ve been so happy this week. I don’t even remember how I responded because, honestly, I was just relieved that he saw me that way after one of the most stressful weeks of the semester. Long days on campus have limited my time with my sons to waking [...]
Finding My Voice and My Tribe
Posted in Moral Support, The Non-Trad Community, tagged blogging, Jeff Jarvis, Leslie-Jean Thornton, Non-trad, Non-traditional students, Steve Doig, Tim McGuire, What Would Google Do? on November 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I’ve been writing this blog for about two months as part of a journalism graduate program and have gotten some valuable feedback. Although it had been 15 years since I wrote anything in a professional capacity and 20 years since I graduated from journalism school, I’m feeling confident again about my ability to write clearly [...]
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