🔖 Read Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?.
Another great piece with an argument centered on the importance of information literacy.
🔖 Read How Gullibility Became Our New Normal.
I love when information literacy pops up in popular publications like this. These pieces can be models for my own public writing.
🔖📚 Read Back Draft: Meghan O’Rourke.
O’Rourke’s making the rounds to promote her new book, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness which I want to read so much. (I’ve got it on hold from the library.)
There are a couple of key quotes from the interview I want to share:
when I was at my sickest, I couldn’t write anything much longer than a sentence. Not a paragraph, and definitely not a chapter.
On my worst days, I feel this way. The difference between days when my brain is zipping along in clarity and wheh it’s slogging through fog is hard to communicate. It is vast.
I was talking about this with a student the other day, and she made a great point. Writers are always being told that you need to be at your desk every day, that you have to push through. And for writers like herself — she has several chronic illnesses — that’s just not feasible. It’s an unreasonable expectation, and an unhealthy one.
Yes! I sometimes scold myself for not writing every day but this is important to remember. It’s also important to capitalize on the good days when we have them.
I wanted the book to be readable for people like me. When you suffer from brain fog, it’s tough to sustain your attention for so long. That’s also why I wanted the chapters to be relatively short and digestible.
This is awesome. I turn to essays when my brain is foggy but I want to read. I’m going to think more about what accessible literature means with respect to cognitive capacity.
It’s good to have a statement that sums up what you do, writ large, that isn’t just a job title. And thanks to influences including Star Trek: Picard, Judaism, and multipassionate entrepreneurs, I’ve got one:
I leverage passion and learning to repair the world.
🔖 Read 5 Ways to Thrive as a Multipassionate Entrepreneur
“Clarity comes from engagement, not thought.”
Whoa, I needed to read that.
🔖 I’m always looking for Leonie Dawson’s post about heroic self-gentleness and struggling to track it down in searches so now that I’ve succeeded once, I’m dropping the link here so I can just search my own website for it next time.
Reading the schedule for GIFCon and my breath caught and I teared up a little at Kat Humphries’s paper title, “What’s this cheery singing all about?”: Fantasy television and the musical episode.
🔖 Read Academic Waste. 🎓
Why I like St. Patrick's Day ☘️
I originally posted this on Facebook on March 17, 2016.
I’m only 9% Irish, but I sure love Saint Patrick’s Day. I think most of my affection for it comes from St. Patrick’s Day 1991, when my sister, our mom, and I arrived at our Tallahassee church for the last round of the church’s progressive dinner, and my dad, who had been living in Durham for more than a year, surprised us by showing up. Will and I have a picture from that Saint Patrick’s Day hanging on the wall of our parlor.