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The Recovering Academic in 2023

A Lost Son Comes Home

The Skier

Experience More Epiphanies in 2024

Ceremony

A Sadness That Holds Hope for Joy

Treadmill

The Therapist

Replay! How to Write a High-Performing Personal Statement or College Essay

Should a Workshop Be a Safe Space?

Autumn Birthdays

How to boost your personal statement or college essay

It Takes Years for the Smoke to Clear

The Rise of the Homeschool Brigade

Behind the Scenes with Kao Kalia Yang

I Could Feel the Beating Heart of My Mother

The Olympian

How to Break Writer's Block as a Memoirist

Blacktail Creek

Phillis Wheatley: An American Genius

Montana Meets Manhattan: Two Adventures in Education

The Librarians Are Not OK

University administrators have forgotten what leadership is

What can you do with a PhD in German?

Coaching and editing

Open thread: Finding balance between extremes

The sports boom will bust universities

Open thread: October book club and narrative medicine

What do Screaming Frog and film studies have in common?

The Scripts We Carry

It's not about me

We Need Wild Fathers

Fatherhood Series Essay: Nature and Character

The boy is father to the man

"I'm not Korean American. But I had to discover that I wasn't white."

3 Strategies for Drafting Your Book

Welcome to The Recovering Academic

A psychology PhD's journey from academe to human factors engineering

Welcome to The Recovering Academic

Private thread: Can the humanities save cities and companies money?

In search of simplicity

The Helicopter Pilot

Do English professors think of themselves as priests?

The best work is on the B-side

J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur: Essential or extra to an American education?

Think of your work history as a series of Seinfeld episodes

How huckleberries earned the nickname "purple gold"

A rattlesnake poem

Open Thread: The American Job Search

At the Falls

How a humanities PhD got hired at Amazon

Swimming from academe to your first industry role

Montana: Lost Cause or Last Best Place?

El Duende

The Dreaded "Red F" and the Beginnings of a Scholar

Industry needs an education in the value of a PhD

How do you define quality in higher education?

Grind less in roles that suit you more

Mutiny in the North Woods

Colleges have a boy problem

The Optimistic Bulldog

How can I help with your writing?

How I observe Independence Day

Open thread: Is AI Destroying the Human Bond in Education?

Can a novelist be an intuitive neuroscientist?

An Evening with Ed Rockland

3 Reasons Why You Should Watch Lucky Hank

Don’t be a “success disaster” in academe

How to align your values with your work

The Tao of River Trash

Slowing Down While Gearing Up

Open thread: Career talk

Why academe discourages a growth mindset

Watershed

How do you know if your Eureka moments are real?

Younger Faculty Are Leaning Out. Is That a Bad Thing?

Can a work self be a whole self?

Open thread: Penalized for a Ph.D.

The Road to Billings, Montana

Don't go to school just to be poor

Private thread: double voicing or truth to power?

Anne Bradstreet: An American Rorschach Test

Open Friday Thread: Sustainability through affection

Professional athletes are the new robber barons

Feedback Friday and a private thread

It's time to rethink evangelical funerals

Open Friday thread: The vocational awe trap

Join me on Notes

Growing like a taproot

Open thread: Recommended reading and metaphors for major life changes

The fire in the ash

The Sweet Spot

Can a relationship expert help higher ed?

Open thread: The limits of perhapsing

How many first-generation students were not the first?

Open thread: On caring institutions

Remedies for The Great Disengagement

Why faculty of color are leaving academe

Why History's "Alone" reminds me of graduate school

Private thread: Breaking the silence of goodbyes

Guest post: Jenn Zuko

Open thread: The audience question

Can you write for a general audience anymore?

How sugaring feeds my soul

The cult of positive thinking comes for academe

Finding our way as misfits

How academic misfits can flourish in academe and beyond

Open Friday Thread: Storytelling, Teaching Experiments, and Private Threads

The Big Quit

What does academic freedom mean today?

Open thread: community check-in

Learning to live with silence

How do you find grace after major life transitions?

Finding grace after academe

What is a grade for, anyway?

Is grading academic writing inherently racist?