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July 2017

July 29, 2017
Working women, working mothers, full-time mothers all know. This is what it's like to be...

February 2017

February 19, 2017
It will not do to remove an incompetent or dangerous political figure by slapping a...
February 03, 2017
Adler's statement is conservative in the best sense: that which is genuinely good is worth...
February 01, 2017
It's easy to develop habits of inattention, of laxity, of apathy, that snowball into outright...

October 2016

October 31, 2016
My dear women-friends, I have some unasked-for advice to give you. And I'm not sorry...
October 10, 2016
When you're in a job where your physical safety is threatened or your competence and...
October 07, 2016
If it is only the power of the most powerful man in the room that...

August 2016

August 23, 2016
HR folks, section leaders, orientation directors, managers, bosses, employers of all sorts can communicate expectations,...
August 20, 2016
Brock Turner's father, whose legitimate parental desire to keep his son out of prison led...

June 2016

June 07, 2016
What Brock Turner did was evil as well as criminal, but I can't say I'd...

April 2016

April 19, 2016
I wrote this on my family blog way back when there were still young people...

March 2016

March 09, 2016
So . . . this was a random list . . . of . ....

January 2016

January 21, 2016
This is an article written by someone who loves his work. Seriously. Academic Urban Legends...
January 18, 2016
Go forth and practice courtesy one to another. Please.
January 06, 2016
People are, by and large, able to think well enough about their employment situation that...

December 2015

December 29, 2015
Looking at people's name tags is not self-evident proof of status consciousness. It may just...
December 08, 2015
My friend Anna Gissing wrote a lovely meditation over at Emerging Scholars Blog on the...
December 02, 2015
Taylor Mali's now-famous slam poetry homage to teaching is a delight. It's a delight because...

November 2015

November 12, 2015
I had plans to publish a few joint projects with my husband, who is in...
November 05, 2015
My freezer is almost empty. I filled it up this summer, with several heroic days...

October 2015

October 31, 2015
So, what you're saying, then, Anthony Bourdain, is that no matter which restaurant we choose,...
October 25, 2015
I'm all for a little frank self-interest driving owners and managers to do what also...

September 2015

September 09, 2015
It is unreasonable to expect to work with near-constant affirmation from superiors, near-constant agreement from...
September 07, 2015
If this is heavenly--first, to know that every child born is one that will live...

August 2015

August 23, 2015
The stories were told by people who were, during the incidents themselves, medical students. Though...
August 17, 2015
If success is necessarily hierarchical and competitive (as even the word "excellence," which I use...
August 12, 2015
The featured chef reported the most important thing he learned from one of his fellow...

July 2015

July 02, 2015
It was an aside, but I mentioned in my last post the importance of using...

June 2015

June 28, 2015
If you are in a position of leadership in your organization, please consider privileging "what...
June 23, 2015
After my last post, it seemed worth offering some strategies of resistance that don't rely...
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