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2023 is the year of cringe

February 3, 2023

“Every extraordinary or successful or remotely memorable person in the world has only gotten to where they are because they didn’t give a fuck about being cringey.” @dahman454 on TikTok. I’ve been helping a good friend with her singing gigs for the past few months. It’s amazingly fun AND… I always leave steeped in CRINGE….. [ Read more … ]

Chefs have to taste everything. So do scholars.

April 19, 2022

On the reality tv show Top Chef, the competing chefs can’t refuse to work with a particular ingredient. The chefs that have the most “well-developed palettes” are the ones who go on to win the competition. Over my years of academic teaching, I’ve sometimes had Ph.D. students who resisted reading some of the literature I [ Read more … ]

Some thoughts about bullying

March 3, 2022

One of the deep issues in my life has been crumbling in the face of bullies. And even, crumbling in the face of aggressive people. Maybe it’s the “awe-shucks” Iowa farm girl community I was raised in. But for whatever reason, bullying “mean girl” energy takes me straight back to my first trip away from [ Read more … ]

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