At the end of high school, I became really interested in JM Barrie’s classic story of Peter Pan. This made a lot of sense at the time – I was on the cusp of adulthood. But as I contemplate giving birth to two boys, I’m revisiting the story from a new perspective. Read More
Month: June 2018
Working Hard – On anxiety, laziness, and imposter syndrome
For me, one of the hardest aspects of pregnancy has been the conflict between not wanting/being able to do work, feeling obligated to work, and my impressions of other people’s expectations for my work. While this is a tension that reflects a perfect storm of being pregnant while also having a fairly work-intense job, the basic dynamic here is common to academia broadly. Read More
Peaches and Cream Frozen Yogurt (In process)
An experiment with frozen yogurt that’s halfway to ice cream. Read More
Loaded Chocolate Chip Lactation Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies, plus a lot of ingredients that supposedly promote lactation in women who have just given birth, but anyone can eat them because really who is going to resist chocolate chip cookies? Read More
How should we teach sources to aspiring historians and laypeople?
Thanks to my rapidly growing pregnant belly, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately watching the PBS series “Finding your Roots” and it’s got me thinking about how historians use sources and what the average person knows about them (and a lot about genealogy, which you can read my extended thoughts on here). Read More
DNA testing and the casually racist use of history
I recently read these two articles, both about the children of orphaned men who used DNA testing to discover unexpected ethnic identities:
Robin Writes 