🔖 Read On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood .

🔖 Read Will Self: How Should We Read? In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age.

🔖 Read Two Musicals on the Perils of Aging. 🎵🎭

The one finished task to two new tasks pipeline.

I’m taking a break from most feeds and timelines, disconnecting auto-posting from my blog to curb the desire to check for notifications. If you want all the news from me, you can sign up for an email that will send you a weekly message with everything I’ve posted on my website that week.

I am a grown human (a woman, specifically) and so I am having cookies as part of my breakfast today.

I had a rough night.

I thought you should know that this Jean-Luc Picard cover of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (feat. Q) is my new Christmas bop. 🖖🏻🎄

What WOULD Christmas be without historically low mountain snow causing staggering drought?

How much do we know about the instructors at Starfleet Academy and their pedagogy? 🖖🏻📺

I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted an offer to start in January as a (remote) Postdoctoral Scholar with the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine. I’ll be doing exactly what I set out to do at the start of my PhD: researching connected learning in libraries.