Category: 2025
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Serendipity & Happenstance vs Certainty & Control
Last fall I found myself driving to Cincinnati from Pittsburgh listening to a fantastic talk from way back in the 1980s by Marion Woodman. I was on my way to meet Peter Block, whom I had worked with over Zoom several years prior on an article adapting his book Community: The Structure of Belonging to…
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The Power of Openness
I mentioned in my inaugural blog post that I struggled to extract myself from a reliance on a professional position that no longer served me. I’ve thought a lot about why and have concluded that I was scared of the unknown that awaited me upon my return to faculty. In a way, I was closed…
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My Wheelbarrow of Uncertainty
At 45, I found myself face-to-face with an impossible situation: I couldn’t quit the academic affairs administrative post that was becoming intolerable in its tedium and repetition and yet I couldn’t bear the thought of risking something as significant as the income, title, and to-do list that gave me some form of purpose to mark…