I’m published again! It’s a very small thing this time, but once again it came from the heart. In the gorgeously illustrated She Appears! Encounters…
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Beauty of Solitude in Wilderness
There is a sort of beauty found in terrible weather, which I’d forgotten. It’s nice to remember. Because I don’t currently have a backyard, I…
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I don’t usually use trigger warnings in my writing, mostly because I don’t expect that many people read my blog, and those that do have…
Continue ReadingReading & voting: Williams’ “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place”
As I write this I’ve just spent the past two or three hours sitting in the tire shop and waiting for a tire change. It…
Continue ReadingThoughts on V. Shiva’s “Staying Alive”
I’m reading Vandana Shiva’s Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, & Development for an on-line class on Ecofeminism which I’m TAing. The following are two comments made…
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So I’m thinking about books and research, as I’m driving back home from turning in yet another handful of library books, several of which were…
Continue Reading“Toward A Queer Ecofeminism” by Greta Gaard
The following is a quick review of an article read for the Ecofeminism class in which I am a TA — yay! I’d like to…
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Finally had a bit of a breakthrough on my dissertation proposal — hallelujah! Working now on getting a dissertation committee Chair, and figuring out all…
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Being a student on a very tight budget, I am particularly fond of restaurants with cards that give you a free meal after a certain…
Continue ReadingA Paean to the Librarian
My dissertation proposal research continues apace – sometimes stutteringly slowly, other times with a swiftness and surety which reassures me that I’m on the right…
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