Halloween is the one time of year when wearing a mask is socially encouraged. But what if you’ve been wearing one throughout your doctoral journey without even realizing it? I’m talking about the ubiquitous academic mask that I see all too frequently. As a...
Think of someone you know who has a commanding voice. Perhaps someone who speaks clearly and enunciates every word. Or someone whose voice fills a room without seeming forced. Or someone who speaks quietly, yet with such conviction that everyone stops to listen. When...
It happened yet again this Spring morning. I was on a Zoom with a brilliant Ph.D. candidate. This is someone who manages a corporate department by day and writes about socio-economic shifts by night. She leaned into the camera like she was about to confess a serious...
Last weekend, I decided it was time for some spring cleaning. Not the overly ambitious “empty every closet in the house” kind of cleaning. Just a broad-stroke reset after a long winter. I cleared a stack of papers that had been quietly growing on my desk and organized...
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh Energy changes as you get older. It simply does. Do you remember when you used to start your night at 9:00 PM? You’d head to a café, order an espresso and pull a focused...
