chronic illness… 4. Things I Wish My Professors Knew About Being A Chronically Ill Graduate Student 30 Nov 201730 Nov 2017 I wish my professors would realize that if I'm quiet, curled into a ball, and white, it might not be because I'm emotionally upset. Even if there are tears in…
Education… 3. Things I Wish My Professors Knew About Being A Chronically-Ill Graduate Student 28 Nov 201728 Nov 2017 I wish my professors would realize that my life as a chronically-ill student outside of college is a lot of doctor's appointments, PT, clinics, testing, procedures, trips to the hospital,…
chronic illness… 2. Things I Wish My Professors Knew About Being A Chronically-Ill Graduate Student 27 Nov 201720 Nov 2017 Graduate assistants often function as the dog's bodies of a department. We fetch, carry, grade, make emergency extra copies, and cover shifts and lectures. If something needs to be put…
chronic illness… Thankful Like a Fairy 20 Nov 201720 Nov 2017 It's that time of year here in the United States when little construction paper turkeys appear on fridges and people suddenly remember that pumpkin is edible. Thanksgiving often feels more…
Musings Things I Wish My Professors Knew About Being A Chronically Ill Graduate Student 14 Nov 201716 Nov 2017 Graduate students live in an awkward, liminal world, straddling the line between student and teacher. To our professors we are students. To undergraduates we are usually instructors.We're both and neither…
Cooking… Chocolate Cupcakes O’ Bliss 8 Nov 201729 Jan 2018 One of the things that I've missed since starting to struggle with food triggers is dessert. Sweet bliss, that sugary note that says that now, indeed, dinner is done. So…
butterflies… Red-banded Hairstreak 4 Nov 201729 Jan 2018 I had been thrilled to see butterflies on our walk, but I was ecstatic to see this tiny hairstreak. It has been a bad year for photographing hairstreaks. They're…
Humor… Blooper Reel! 3 Nov 201729 Jan 2018 We've all had it. Those wonderful pictures, perfectly lined up, all glowing light and smooth lines, and then abruptly SPLAT the silhouetted bird lets loose with a nice juicy one.…
butterflies… Painted Ladies 2 Nov 201729 Jan 2018 This year, painted lady butterflies migrated in such numbers that they showed up as a 70 mile cloud on radar over Colorado. We didn't have the numbers that Denver reported,…
butterflies… One Thing I Learned 1 Nov 201729 Oct 2017 I was innocently reading a web page and abruptly ran into a challenge: What have you learned from being chronically ill? What has changed for the better? The challenge was…