• Tips I Wish I’d Learned Earlier

    Reading Bird by Bird at the Right Time I picked up Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott a few years back when I visited BookPeople, a fantastic bookstore in Austin,while passing through the city. I proceeded to leave it on my “to be read shelf” for a couple of years. When I decided on books…

  • The Academic Writing Cycle

    A Brutally Honest Look A confession: academic writing isn’t a straight path but more of a looping, spiraling, sometimes wild adventure. So I tried to map the chaos. People talk about writing like it’s a cycle or a process — neat, knowable, step by step. But for me, it’s an adventure: twists, turns, detours, and…