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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Holding It All Together
Holding It All Together
I am married, an associate professor, and have a 5-year-old daughter, a 23-year-old stepson, and a 25-year-old stepdaughter. In this essay, I want to outline the way in which my life as a scholar, wife, mother, colleague, friend, and so on has unfolded over the past several years and how the roles I inhabit and the things I try to accomplish create both stressors and opportunities for me to come into new understandings of myself and my world. I will go into a lot of concrete details about my current life structure here because this is the only way I know to describe the rhythms of my life at the moment.
My story is best begun through a recounting ...
