Enjoy your time. I hope that you each take time to enjoy the process of earning your doctoral degree. It really is an honor and privilege...

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...