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On the prompting of a friend i’ve started watching more TED talks – and some of them have been so inspiring I can’t help but share my favourite finds. This is the story of teacher, massai, extraordinary woman, Kakenya Ntaiya. TEDTalks made available here under a Creative Commons (CC) license,
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Life doesn’t stop while you’re writing, and sometimes you have to work in less than ideal circumstances or fit the dissertation in the nooks and crannies. I often marvel at the lives of my dissertating friends with babies. I have enough trouble trying to make it all work on my own. The dissertation places strain [...]
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Tomorrow heralds the beginning of November and the second annual #AcBoWriMo! This year it’s the most generally named #AcWriMo (which also makes for a much shorter hashtag)! After three years of NaBloPoMo (National Blog Post Month), I threw my lot in with Academic Book Writing month in 2011 (AcBoWriMo) and attempted to give my PhD [...]
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This was a week during my nomadic summer of writing in the US. This is part of a series where I share a week in the life of the dissertating process. Monday It seems that I was so exhausted from the weekend that I slept until after 9am. It’s been a good year since I’ve [...]
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On one hand it is far from lent and so the timing of this review might seem odd, however, now is as good a time as any to share a resource in advance of next lent. ____________________ Huston, Paula. Simplifying the Soul: Lenten Practices to Renew Your Spirit. Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press, 2011. There [...]
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Right now I’m taking a break from #project333. I’m enjoying having all of my clothes at my disposal – including those i boxed up for the original #project333 challenge back in January. But while traveling from March to September, I had a capsule wardrobe of just 33 items. I spoke at conferences, spent time in [...]
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This week will see Transpositions host a symposium on Aesthetics and Liturgy, which I proud to be curating with Preston Yancey. Most broadly, liturgy can be defined as a pattern for worship. Though one can engage in a liturgy alone, it is most commonly communal ritual action or observance. It encompasses public worship participated in [...]
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