Center of Gravitas

Greetings! Over the past weekend, I jetted to an island other than Paradise for an academic conference. It was my good fortune to be on a ...

Time sure is flying. With the start of the semester, I barely have time to read blogs much less write one. Apparently I am not alone in b...

Some weeks ago the gentleman beau and I decided to take advantage of the sizzling merciless soul killing heat summer weather by taking a l...

A few weeks ago, Dr. Crazy had a post about collegiality in academic departments. She suggested some pretty basic notions about how one s...

Aging is usually something best done alone. Or maybe with a bottle of bourbon. Whatever the case, it’s hard to conceive that I will be 38...

Several years ago I briefly dated a man with young children. Anybody who knows me can well imagine why that relationship did not last more ...