academia

This post has two parts. Part the First: wherein encounters with the public library lead to benefits beyond my wildest dreams. I am attempting to renew our overdue relationship with the public library. (heh, heh.) The public library and I have a ...

Blog entry - diber - 08/11/2010 - 08:26 - 11 comments

No, no funky seersucker pants this year. But I have been making some fun stuff for our vacation. (We leave tomorrow!! yay!) For Marlowe: When Ellis was 2, I got two blank Tshirts at Target, always meaning to freezer paper stencil them. Never got ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/01/2010 - 07:54 - 2 comments

Over the past several months, my thoughts sometimes wander to the topic of higher education, specifically, how technology may (will?) shape how the institutions of higher education. Will the structures at the university level be impacted by ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/21/2009 - 11:21 - 4 comments

Lilian wrote about a book that is exactly what I have been looking for for years: Mama, Ph.D: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press 2008), edited by Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant. (A university press, no ...

Blog entry - diber - 08/28/2008 - 20:38 - 0 comments

I don't know why I am even blogging about this, since it will likely end up in a fruitless ramble and totally uninteresting. It just rolls around in my head all the time. I'm always thinking about "when I get back into research/into a PhD program". I'm ...

Blog entry - diber - 02/19/2008 - 22:28 - 6 comments