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I have been noticing my guard dropping in my interactions at work. I first noticed it after a class, when the students had brought up a topic and I had ended up reaching back into my
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Reflections on Paper
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I will be taking my research and writing students on a tour of the law library soon. It’ll include a walk through our collection floors and past my office, as well as other nooks and crannies.
Wrangling the Money
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I’ve been in my current role just over a year and it is the second one where we had a bit of process change around money. In my previous role, the CFO died about 5 months
The Bump and the Grind
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I’m in a liminal space on my writing. It was a very busy summer, one way and another, and I was in a bit of a forced march to get projects done before it was over.
Law Through A Kaleidoscope
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It all started with a inflammatory headline on an article shared on Mastodon. It was from a politically aligned media site that was suggesting that a new Congressional Bill would deprive Americans of rights. I read
Irresolute Literacy
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I am back in the classroom this semester. As I put together my syllabus, I faced the artificial intelligence section. It is, for me, relatively inconsequential even though I am teaching a research and writing class.
The Blog Horizon
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The cratering of X seemed to foreshadow a resurgence of blogging. New platforms sprang up, walled gardens expanded, there was some fracturing but, all
Give It Your 85%
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I have been contemplating my ability to juggle my responsibilities—leader, manager, parent, partner, pup valet—and was reminded, once again, that we need to give ourselves slack. No one and nothing operates at 100%, let alone the
One Trip Around the Sun
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I have just passed my first anniversary at the new job. It seems to have come around faster than I expected although, considering everything else going on in the last 12 months, that may hardly be
Caught Between Publishers and a Hard Place
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The photo coming out of the Fayette County (TX) courthouse law library was not great PR. The story showed a stack of boxes from legal publishers that had pocket parts, shrink-wrapped text volumes, and who knows