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  • Shapeshifting Experience into Research

    I have my second peer reviewed article coming out in a couple of weeks. It’s the first scholarly article I’ve written since starting my job at UNM. The article is about creating OER at my previous workplace, and it uses an autoethnographic method of analyzing and interpreting research and experience. If you’re not sure what…

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  • Temporal Distance in Memoir

    I was twenty-three when I took my first creative nonfiction writing class, and I was actually pretty terrified because I was the youngest person in the class, and I had never submitted prose to a creative writing workshop. The course was made up of undergraduate and graduate students, and I needed the course to fulfill…

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  • Resolving 2022

    Resolving 2022

    I had a very tumultuous 2022. The pandemic came to a close and so did a couple of chapters in my life. I did not start 2022 with any goals of significantly changing my life, yet here we are almost in 2023, and I changed careers and divorced my husband. I started my new job…

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  • A different kind of hibernation

    This is my first fall semester not being a teacher and not being a student in nearly two decades. As I wrap up the end of my first year as an assistant professor, the campus is quieting down, and I am still working. As a faculty librarian, my semester doesn’t end when I turn in…

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  • Librarianship in Action

    Librarianship in Action

    I am taking a Creative Commons certificate class, and it has been really informative. I like doing the homework for the class because it makes me go over the material multiple times while I develop CC-licensed work pretty much ingraining it in my brain. Taking this class is part of my work as an academic…

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  • Bad Mouth Reading: The Performance

    This week, I am honored that Rebecca Aronson asked me to give a reading for her Bad Mouth reading series. If you live in the Albuquerque area and haven’t heard of it, that’s okay because you can visit their webpage today! From the Bad Mouth website: Bad Mouth is a reading and performance series designed…

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