Want to read: She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh 📚

Want to read: Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom 📚

I don’t feel like writing an informative blog post today. It feels like a day for writing something more personal.

You’re exhausted, right? We’re all exhausted.

I don’t know what to do besides keep going.

W: I would encourage you to have lunch.
Me: I will, but right now I’m writing.
(Y’ALL. I wrote NEW words for my dissertation today, words that were not copied and pasted from my proposal or comps!)

Please do not ask me how many times my son and I have watched the Courtney 1986 music video from American Girl because I have lost count.

Me to M & W: These days, besides you guys, books are my best friends.
W: These days?

I have named my aesthetic and it is witchy sparkle romantigothabilly academia.

Jen Polk (@FromPhDtoLife) has created an amazing reading list for grad students and PhDs exploring careers or job hunting. #altac #postac #WithAPhD

15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going) - Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) writes about why he blogs. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about blogging as a medium and a genre, and its value independent of content marketing. Kleon’s added fuel for my meditations here.

New profile pic. I think we all knew that a headshot where I look like I dgaf would give way to one where I’m clearly a marshmallow before too long.