I am tired. My skin and bones and hair are tired. All I want to do is mooch around in my PJs and read undemanding novels with happy endings, and eat pancakes. I'm pretty sure this is a version of the post-PhD funk, but this time round it's post-book funk, and the lingering effects of … Continue reading When you are just over it all: being nice to yourself vs being kind
Category: support systems
Turning your writing ship around: pushing back against individualism and isolation
In 2014, while I was deep into reading Cressida Cowell's How to train your dragon series to my boys, I blogged about PhD theses and ocean crossings, likening the early stages to small, leaky, slow boats, and the end stages to faster, sleek racing ships. Writing can be a lot like this, as I also … Continue reading Turning your writing ship around: pushing back against individualism and isolation
Writer, know thyself
Lao Tzu said to know others is wisdom, to know yourself is enlightenment. Enlightenment is insight, awareness, understanding; to be enlightened is to have a deeper ability to see and understand yourself, and why you behave, think, and act the way you do. It is a significant goal of humanity, to achieve an enlightened state … Continue reading Writer, know thyself
Creating bigger rooms for different bodies and beings in academia
In a small break from writing a very scary application for something I really, really want, I saw this tweet on friend's Facebook wall: This was pretty much exactly what I needed to hear, but it got me thinking a bit about all the rooms I have earned the right to be in over the … Continue reading Creating bigger rooms for different bodies and beings in academia
Not ‘that’ kind of doctor
On a flight home from a teaching block last week, there was a medical emergency on the plane. The crew, as they do in these situations, asked for a doctor to make himself or herself known (and then asked for any medical professional to come forward). A Swedish doctor sitting next to me stood up, … Continue reading Not ‘that’ kind of doctor
