Category: parenting

Don’t get to the point where it doesn’t feel good anymore

I am not a big eater, but it’s a big deal in our culture not to waste food (other people are dying of starvation) and on

What’s Logical Anyway? On Benign Openness

This post is inspired by several strangely intersecting events across my personal and social media and professional lives (i s

Academic overwork, passion, adrenaline and parenting…

I read a post this morning by Kate Bowles in which she discusses the issue of the culture of academic overwork and it got me t

That innocent, hopeful look…

I recently started noticing an interesting “look” in the eyes of undergrad (particularly freshman) students. Has a

Role play or “acting” to promote empathy?

I think about empathy a lot, it’s one of those things that’s a “research area” for me that I have not

Gaming, parenting, and the myth of best practice

I promise there’s a relationship between all three of the things in my title, so let me just go ahead and make it explic

Multiple me #poem

You can’t make me better You can’t make me worse You can only make it harder To be who I am You can’t contro

On cockroaches, perception, and (believe it or not) gender!

So umm this is kind of a joking reflection on roaches… Why on earth are we scared of them? They can’t do us much h

Projecting Gender?

I was having a pleasant conversation yesterday with a semi-stranger but this morning, I found myself reflecting on something s

Gender and Patriarchy as Micro Issues

I found myself thinking recently, how some discourses about gender and patriarchy use such abstract language to talk about eve