I’m Leigh. I am in the fifth year of a long PhD program. I have one sixteen month old son, Seamus. He gets my attention when the dissertation doesn’t! But he’s also getting a brother very soon. I’m struggling with balancing teaching, writing, being a mom and partner, and having some time to myself. I blog about these challenges.
What I’m Reading Now
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Parallel Play by Tim Page
The Schedule
Jan 17--First day of Spring Semester
Jan 27--My birthday
March 5-11--Spring Break
March 29-31--College English Association Conference; Richmond, VA
April 5-9--Easter Break
April 11-14--PCA/ACA Conference; Boston, MA
May 12--Last day of Spring Semester
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Books I’ve read in 2012
1. Lucky (Alice Sebold)
2. The Birth of Venus (Sarah Dunant)
3. Ragged Dick (Horatio Alger)
4. Catherine the Great (Robert K Massie)
5. The Kitchen Daughter (Jael McHenry)
6. Passing (Nella Larsen)
7. The Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)
8. Pocho (Jose Antonio Villarreal)
9. Under the Feet of Jesus (Helena Maria Viramontes)
10. The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (Yellow Bird/John Rollin Ridge)
11. The Descendants (Kaui Hart Hemings)
12. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
13. Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
14. Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
15. Basic Ethics (Michael Boylan)
16. The Bro-Magnet (Lauren Baratz)
17. Abundance (Sena Jeter Naslund)
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