As it turns out, I’m not the maverick I appear to be. It seems everywhere I go, I find out about another person who went back to school. Just last weekend I went to a 60th birthday party for a friend and was talking to a woman about my being in grad school. She motioned [...]
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Thanksgiving Grad-itude
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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