I help graduate students and PhDs achieve their career and life goals, especially when it comes to launching meaningful-to-them careers. What do you want? Personal and professional wellbeing. How do you achieve it? Challenge your assumptions and learn new perspectives.

Monday, August 28, 2017. Well, This is Upsetting. If any of you are still out there. If youre making a writing or coaching or whatevering career out of the postacademic world, then of course. Friday, April 22, 2016.

Good Shit on the Brian Lehrer Show. This post is long overdue.

In Leaving Acadmia - Process, Story. Coming Up for Air, Facing Reality, and One Night Stands. In Leaving Acadmia - Process, Story. In Leaving Acadmia - Process, Story.

I took this selfie after writing this piece. This was written at the end of an intense affair with an otherwise-engaged man in 2007. We used to have a joke about me being poisonous.

D-Day Has Come and Gone .

One part post-academic, one part post-evangelical, and a generous splash of feminist. The Case of the Disappearing Phone Interview. Nope, still no job. At the time I wrote my last no-job post. As I mentioned in my last post. I was recently in the exceedingly ironic position of hiring someone while unemployed myself. Our ideal candidate was someon.

Writing a dissertation is not like that. I thought I would graduate in December, and then in May, and now it is August. How is it any different than before? So how do I convince myself now that I really am almost done? Sunday night, 10 pm. After my initial complete meltdo.

What Do You Do with an M. in English? On finding a job. Well, this is a grossly overdue post. It took months and months and was a very frustrating process, but it did work out in the end. Better than how I felt in grad school.