It’s a year today since Jean Anyon passed away. That length of time feels simultaneously like the blink of an eye and forever. She was respected, admired, and loved by many. And though I can make no particular claim about the relationship she and I had while…
Category: Writing Process
Up early(ish) on the first day since August that I’ve had to really breathe for a minute, and I can’t stop thinking about finding a better way to categorize my email. Gmail makes it relatively easy to organize messages like you might papers in a…
Every semester of graduate school so far has been marked by some event. For better or for worse, several of those events have been, for me, injuries. I fractured my tailbone at the end of July (a swimming accident), and then broke my toe about…
This Friday, I’ll be participating on this panel at the CUNY IT Conference. 9:30am-10:45am. John Jay College. Come learn about what’s happening at OpenCUNY as we share what we’ve been doing with our various websites. As an aside, I recently learned you could host a…
As I get my feet wet with this public-blogging thing (intentionally public, anyway–this isn’t the first time I’ve blogged publicly, but it’s the first time I’ve done so while trying to capture the attention of a specific audience and string a common thread through my…
Since I decided that the focus of my research would be online, I’ve had a growing symbiotic relationship with the internet. I spend most of my time in front of my computer, having a conversation with someone or Google. I’m always searching for the answer…