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  • Five for Friday, April 15: Texas Edition

    I’m not a native Texan. I arrived in San Antonio fifteen years ago this summer, prepared to take on my first full-time gig as a professor and thinking I’d stay only as long as…

  • Dealing With Burnout

    The poet T.S. Eliot called April “the cruelest month.” He wasn’t a professor, so he couldn’t have known how very accurate those words are for those of us who work in higher education, but…

  • Making Peace With The Fat Girl

    Over the weekend I read this post by an author on Medium who identifies herself only as Your Fat Friend. The post itself details the kind of anxiety experienced by a “person of size”…

  • Five for Friday, March 11: Self Care Edition

    Spring semester is always difficult for me, and I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because fall semester is the start of a school year, so everyone is a little more energetic–and spring is when…