I’m adding things to it slowly, but I’ve created a Connected Learning page curating my notes, memos, and blog posts on this topic. I have so much more to add.
Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC
Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
Want to get in touch? You can reach me by email.
Recent posts
🔖 Read How I Build My Common Place Book
🔖 Read How I Build My Common Place Book (Greg McVerry)
McVerry generously summarizes his workflow:
- Document impetus of thought (often after the fact)
- Collect initial bookmarks
- Ask in networks, bookmark your queries
- Collect research, and block quotes or use social annotations
- Begin to formulate thoughts in random blog posts
- Start to draft the long form thought
- Publish an article on my Domain.
🔖 Read When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life (The Atlantic) by Cindy Lamothe
“she said she often distrusts that other people will take care of things. ‘That’s why I tend to step up and do it myself.’”
Next time I take it into my head that words won’t come out of me in written form, I’m going to re-read this 2018 blog post in which I calculated that I wrote 98,000 words in the first 5 semesters of my doctoral program.
Stole a quote from the woodland goth page of Aesthetics wiki for my bio/tagline: “…a hybrid of fey imagery, Glam Rock glitter, and the lighter side of 80s Goth.”
Pool’s open!
🔖💻 Read You’re Not Blogging, My Friend. (Tom Critchlow).
🔖💻 Read Incrementally correct personal websites (Brian Lovin).
🔖💻 Read envisioning my homepage as an online therapeutic space (Winnie Lim).