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A professor, four kids, and a crash course in work/life balance

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Post-Thanksgiving Wrap Up

Howdy! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Around here, we had so much fun, I forgot to blog, but now Patrick’s making quizzes for tomorrow, and I am avoiding doing anything that might be mistaken for work.Here’s how our Thanksgiving went: We both had Wednesday off–a great start to the long weekend (although if… Continue reading Post-Thanksgiving Wrap Up

Published November 30, 2009
Categorized as Family Life, Food, Outdoor Pursuits Tagged running, Thanksgiving

Work Failure

This week has been not very productive. Yet teaching has gone really well, with students responding to the reading with lively discussion involving students that never ever speak otherwise. I wrote one and a half encyclopedia entries. Read a book. But there’s been a lot of upheaval in schedules, etc. which caused work to move… Continue reading Work Failure

Published November 13, 2009
Categorized as Family Life, Outdoor Pursuits, Teaching Tagged running, shots, Teaching, work

Veterans Day Awesomeness

Today is going to be a great day! Patrick has today off (thanks Veterans), and his mom is here and they are going to Tent Rocks which is a beautiful place, and if you’ve never been there, we’ll take you the next time you visit. However, I am not going today! And they’re taking Seamus, so… Continue reading Veterans Day Awesomeness

Published November 11, 2009
Categorized as Events, Family Life Tagged running, Seamus, tent rocks, visitors

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We Don’t Know Ourselves

Books for book club

Love Songs of WEB DuBois (again, for class)

Where we want to go–2023

Skiing

Camping

Kayaking

Biking

Baseball

Montana–I hope we can

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Books I’ve read in 2023

1) Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
2) Once There Were Wolves (Charlotte McConaghy)
3) Our Missing Hearts (Celeste Ng)
4) Women Rowing North (Mary Phipher)
5) The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah)
6) A Very Punchable Face (Colin Jost)
7) Migrations (Charlotte McConaghy)
8) Fun Home (Alison Bechdel)
9) Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver)
10) As Long As the Lemon Tree Grows (Zoulfa Katouh)
11) Someday, Maybe (Onyi Nwabineli)
12) Someone Else’s Shoes (Jojo Moyes)
13) Pineapple Street (Jenny Jackson)
14) Really Good, Actually (Monica Heisey)

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