I’ve been meaning in check in here more than once. I have more than one blog post in drafts. Alas, the past few months ran away from me. Granted, they have been very fruitful months. I’ve been working on grading, on supervision, on guiding two PhD supervisees towards their viva voces (both passed and will … Continue reading The Forgotten Beauty of an Analogue Life
I was mulling the other day the thought that I am of that age where one’s experience and expertise requires one to dish out advice on a daily basis. I do this mostly as an educator and supervisor of PhD, Masters and BA students. I’m also an academic mentor of undergraduates, and generally of that … Continue reading The Dangerous Business of Giving Advice
Tonight I was thinking of an experience of mine in my early twenties. As I was thinking about it, I suddenly had an intense need to fictionalise it and I could have gone two ways. It could have been a literary fiction piece but then again, I’ve never been able to write a literary fiction … Continue reading How Do You Like Your Science Fiction?
Dear Readers, Every now and then I like to offer this tiny writing/life tip to my students, my supervisees (MA, PhD etc) and on my socials. I believe I did write a post about this on a previous iteration of this website that crashed many years ago (and I lost a lot of posts!). Since … Continue reading One Sentence That Moves The Plot
Like the rest of Team MoonJoy, the past ten or so days have been about the fear and joy (and anxiety!) that came with the Artemis II mission. As a Gen-X individual we will always (those of us who paid attention) have generational trauma because of Challenger. And yes, as a teenager in the science … Continue reading Hope is not just a Four Letter Word