Hello, all. I read this article last spring and decided to save it to share. I am hoping you each feel pretty good about your...

Hey. How are you this week? Take a moment and say something nice about yourself to yourself. (pause) Good job. This week's post is about...

Okay, all. Last blog post until fall. You have done a lot of stuff this academic year. You have more to do in the future - maybe even...

Click the button above. It will take you to a wonderful little video. Trust me. You'll appreciate it. I think. (pause) Yes, you will. At...

Wisdom from your friends and mine...

Read your work. Re-read your work. Ask a peer to read your work (and say yes when they ask you to read theirs). Use the editing tool in...

I guess there are two ways you can deal with breaking in your graduate studies. You can take a break or the work can break you. Either...

Continue. If you get stuck or hit a wall, let me know. We'll chat. But continue to continue.

I thought I'd focus on love this week with "that February holiday" approaching. I love my students. For me, that means that I care very...

Whether you are taking a course, preparing for comps or your proposal, or working on your dissertation, things will come up that you did...

I read something last summer that I keep thinking about. It was a post on some social media platform. The person wrote: When I started as...

For those of you who will be defending your dissertation this spring or over the summer, a few words of advice: Keep going. Swear a...

Enjoy the end of the semester and a break before the spring term.

This week, I wanted to share a few articles you might want to check out. When I come across these kinds of things I hang on to them in...

Be good to yourselves. If you have a negative inner voice, confront it, care for it, help it heal, whatever you need to do. So much of...

Not much to say about this one. I think it speaks for itself. Also seems appropriate for Halloween week. Have a nice day. Now get back to...

Write. It's hard, but you have to do it. Make your peace with the fact that not every writing day will be a good writing day. It isn't...

You've made it to October. If you are new to the program, you have already struggled with the "Why did I think I wanted to do this?"...

Learn to love this word. Learn creative ways to say it. No is your friend. No is your protector. No is your champion. And sometimes you...

There is a story I like about a Zen master who is approached by a student. The student asks, "How long each day do I have to meditate to...