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  • Some Sentiments About 20 Years at Stevenson

    October 4, 2020 /

    *** Last week I received an email from human resources about celebrating 20 years at Stevenson University. And I used to think the 13 years I spent at the Baltimore Orioles was a long time. When I taught my very first semester at Stevenson in January of 2000, I was pregnant with my son, Matthew, and was hired as an adjunct professor. Now, Matthew is a junior in college. When you look at it through that lens, a long time has passed. I moved into full-time teaching in 2008, when Stevenson changed its name from Villa Julie College to Stevenson University. Prior to my time at Stevenson, I began teaching…

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    Two Exercises for Teaching Description and Using The Five Senses in Writing

    May 22, 2020

    Pretty Things, Poetry, and Handmade Valentines

    January 27, 2016

    Podcast 16: Taking a Gander of What’s Out There Before You Write

    May 21, 2020
  • What I’ve Learned So Far as a Professor During the Coronavirus Pandemic

    March 30, 2020 /

    I’m guessing this particular post is going to be an ongoing work in progress with additions made to it regularly. You see, we are all learning, students and faculty. The decision to move online took only a matter of days once we knew the severity of the coronavirus outbreak and what its potential could be for our community at Stevenson University. Within a three-day span, we learned we were closing and we instituted online practices for faculty. Our university moved swiftly, and there was a ton of support offered from many: from our president and administrators; from our technology folks; from our department chairs and deans; and from each other.…

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    Acceptable “B” Words for a BETTER You

    January 8, 2016

    Giving In To Creativity

    February 2, 2020

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    June 1, 2020
  • Goodbyes. Gripping Pain. And a Giveaway.

    August 28, 2018 /

    *** Hi there! I feel as if I’ve been away from my blog for a while, and I actually have, although it’s been entirely unintentional. Today, I wanted to explain why, especially as I wanted to write about the past week, which has been somewhat momentous for my family. My son started his freshman year at a university, and it’s not the one where I teach. The preparation, though, was all that you’d expect. The day before he left, we were frantically getting everything together, making sure he had all he needed. We washed clothes and ran to Target. We created a checklist and began ticking things off. We organized…

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    Podcast 12: Creating An Author Platform and Press Kit

    March 31, 2020

    Some Updates on Some things

    September 8, 2020

    Springtime in Annapolis

    March 17, 2016
  • Coping With Your First Child Heading Off To College: A Mother’s Lament

    July 27, 2018 /

    *** This concept of a child going away to study at a university shouldn’t really phase me at all, right? I’m a college professor. I have been for years now. I’m the one smiling at other parents during Open Houses as I say all the right things to them about how their student will love college; how they will grow and flourish; and how they will have the time of their lives. This should be easy for me as I have a son who will start his freshman year at a university in Pennsylvania in a few weeks. I’ve been in this profession since 1993, long enough to know that…

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    Stuff Those Stockings with Books

    December 4, 2015

    Suggestions for Helping Kids (and Adults) Enjoy Reading

    October 2, 2015

    Creating a Capsule Wardrobe To Simplify and Change Your Life

    July 7, 2019
  • The Case for Teaching: Inspiring Students AND Inspired by Students

    July 30, 2017 /

    It’s Sunday morning, and I’m sitting on my porch writing this post and looking at this glorious day sipping my cup of coffee from my Yeti (which keeps it INCREDIBLY hot, let me just say). In a little while, my daughter and I will head to my parents’ house and sit by their pool and spend time with my brother and his family who are visiting. My son and husband will go play golf–a ritual they’ve tried to do on one day of the weekend. I love that they do this, as my son has one year left of high school before he enters college. I love my summers; they…

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    Podcast 16: Taking a Gander of What’s Out There Before You Write

    May 21, 2020

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    September 12, 2015

    Springtime in Annapolis

    March 17, 2016
  • 8 Things Teachers Enjoy During Summer Break

    May 19, 2017 /

    *** Yesterday, students at Stevenson University celebrated their graduation at our ceremonies in Maryland. As a professor in the department of Business Communication, I was thrilled to see our graduates walk across the stage and receive their diplomas. They worked hard the last four years, and it paid off. As for my colleagues and me, that means we are done teaching until August (unless some are teaching a summer course). While we certainly have preparations to make for the Fall 2017 semester (and I will be teaching a newly created course as well that requires a lot of work), we are free to do some things we want to do…

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    What I’m Writing Now (or my current WIP)

    May 14, 2020

    Creating a Capsule Wardrobe To Simplify and Change Your Life

    July 7, 2019

    Reflections on 2131 after ESPN Aired the Game Last Night

    April 8, 2020
  • Procrastination Doesn’t Pay

    September 22, 2016 /

    * As a college educator, I can certainly tell you with certainty that procrastination doesn’t pay. I see it every day—sometimes getting started on the task is actually more difficult for some than executing the task itself. The truth is, people think procrastination is about managing time. However, it’s much more complex than that. People underestimate how much time a certain task will take. Another fallacy is that people think procrastination is just about putting off a task. It’s not. It’s also about being late to meetings, events, interviews, or parties; not paying your bills on time; or even something that can be good for you, like taking your paycheck to the bank. These are…

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    Friday Fiction: Writing the Prologue & Baseball Girl

    April 15, 2016

    Times Flies & Simple Goals for 2020

    December 29, 2019

    Vlogging about the Writing Life—Connecting Inn Significant & Little Milestones

    November 18, 2019
  • Why We Should Stop Using the Phrase “In the Real World”

    September 7, 2015 /

    While there are many trite (and incorrectly structured) phrases that people use constantly, i.e. phrases like “It is what it is” and “I could care less,” whereby the first just sounds silly and the latter actually means you care, there is another phrase that I’d like to see stripped from our sentence constructs. The phrase is this: In the real world… In the real world, your resume should be polished. In the real world, you should secure a job you enjoy getting up for in the morning. In the real world, you’ll be paying more taxes. I hear people say this constantly. It is most commonly said to those in…

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    Book Review: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

    January 31, 2019

    The Way the Rain Smells

    February 23, 2016

    Breathing in the Air and Tasting The Wines in Napa Valley

    April 27, 2016
  • 20 Years and Counting The Pleasures

    October 23, 2013 /

    I distinctly remember Beth, my neighbor at the time, and the assistant in the Humanities department, asking me the question: “Could you teach a public speaking class?” “Yes,” I said. “I was a mass communication major with a minor in speech communication.” It was the Thursday before Labor Day, and the course at the community college was scheduled to begin on Tuesday. In a matter of days, I read the textbook, outlined the goals of the course, and wrote my first syllabus on the beach in Ocean City, Maryland, my friends encouraging me as I scribbled in my spiral notebook and they helped me brainstorm ideas. On Tuesday night of…

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    The Colors of Autumn

    October 27, 2015
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    Fictography For Old Time’s Sake and as a Teaching Tool: Back Home

    March 12, 2019

    For the Love of Postcards (and other written correspondence)

    January 14, 2019

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