Tag: academic

Middle Aged and Moving Forward

What kind of life is possible after the dissertation? What kind of a career is for me outside academia? These are a couple of the important questions that arise from Jacquelyn Gill’s Blog Carnival call on What’s Your Post-PhD Story?  Pieces of my post PhD story are within this website and elsewhere, but for personal …

Agonizing About Writing:

When is enough, ever really enough? Academic writers work more slowly and tend to labor over their work as discussed in this post.  Academic writers and grant proposal writers share much. Many academics write grants to further their research and scholarship.  At some point both grant proposal and academic writers have to stop tinkering and …