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What do Screaming Frog and film studies have in common?
How a humanities PhD found a new path as an SEO manager
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Joshua Doležal
The Scripts We Carry
And how fathers leave an indelible mark on them
Published on Just Enough to Get Me in Trouble • 
It's not about me
Lessons from my father and my son
Published on Get Real, Man • 
We Need Wild Fathers
We don’t need fathers to keep quiet. We need them to speak up, and to be more themselves than ever. We need them to be caring, but less careful.
Published on An Ordinary Disaster • 
Fatherhood Series Essay: Nature and Character
My Father Versus Me
Published on Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing • 
The boy is father to the man
What I learned about fatherhood as a child
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"I'm not Korean American. But I had to discover that I wasn't white."
Carol Roh Spaulding on her prizewinning story collection, "Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories"
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Three Strategies for Drafting Your Book
Notes from a writing coach
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Welcome to The Recovering Academic
A preview of my series and a little about me
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Joshua Doležal
A psychology PhD's journey from academe to human factors engineering
Ashley Ruba on the value of building abiding relationships online
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Joshua Doležal
Private thread: Can the humanities save cities and companies money?
And a wilderness poem
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In search of simplicity
And how to show a father's love
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