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Order me some regular
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert’s maxim caught me in it’s grasp when I first heard it in graduate school. It...
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Order me some regular
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert’s maxim caught me in it’s grasp when I first heard it in graduate school. It...
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The Absent-Minded Professor
It’s inevitable, this subject, this joke. One of the questions I address in my FAQ is “How did you ever become a professor with AD(H)D?” I started teaching in graduate school, as a graduate assistant,...
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So. What’s. Happening.
Hello blogosphere. I have been neglectful. I’m so textbook ADD it’s boring. With my blog here, I met with some success—readers, commenters, followers—and then dropped out. My former therapist might...
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The Numb3rs
My career stats at a teacher (these are estimates/averages): 18 years (I started when I was 23, so I’m not that old . . .) 12 sections a year = 216 sections 18 students/section = 3888 students 6...
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It won’t be different this time
A comment from ellisinwonderland on a previous post got me to thinking. ‘When the going gets tough, I go on to something else.’ Ah, how familiar this whole process (culminating in the above) is to me....
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Writing as Therapy
If writing is so therapeutic, why are there so many miserable writers? When I was earning my creative writing degrees, the idea of writing as therapy was anathema. The phrases “navel gazing,” “mental...
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Disappearing
Dear friends, colleagues, students, employers, creditors, family, editors, medical providers, yoga instructors, Facebook friends, WordPress readers, and auto mechanics: I have ADHD. It’s a real thing....
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