feminist | librarian | researcher | social critic
One of the bad habits that I have is constantly looking back in time and re-thinking the choices I made in my career, education, and just generally about my life. My brain LOVES to over-analyze my past in a way that makes me feel like I am not moving forward in a positive manner. However,…
Over the past 7 weeks, I have been working through The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Reading the chapters, writing the morning pages, and gathering with a group on Saturday mornings to discuss progress. It has been an enlightening experience and has brought me to a place where I can more clearly what has been…
After working in customer service and tech for 30 years, I am finally ready to move on to better things. What could possibly be better than tech, you ask? Well – pretty much anything, but specifically – Academia. The MLS degree that I obtained in 2016 should have allowed me to find work in Academic…
This year I will turn 45 years old. For a great deal of that 45 years, I have been a working human. My first job, at 14, required me to buss tables on Friday nights for an extremely busy Polish restaurant. This job prepared me for my second gig (which lasted 7 years, from ages…
The year was 1998. I had recently completed my music performance (opera) degree and was working in a dead end sales job. The job was a means to an end – I wanted to be able to save enough money to move out of my parents house and be ‘on my own’ for the first…