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Writing Prompt: Hesitant Fate

Writing Prompt : Pick up the book closest to you. Turn to page 55. Use the second sentence on the page as your prompt for today ” The lower middle classes, and a substantial swath of the more prosperous, did not have the servants to permit them to lie in bed for weeks (or even […]

Health Update: Aug/Sept 2018

Happy Fall! (I know, I’m a bit early, but with the rainstorm we had yesterday and the leaves starting to fall, I feel like I can get away with it.) I am feeling like some of my brain fog is starting to lift a little bit again, so I’m going to aim to get this […]

Book Review – Literary Yarns

You Guys. If you are crocheters you simply must check this book out! I got it from the library to see if it was something that I’d want in my (tiny yet growing) collection of crochet books and it IS. These patterns are easy to follow and turn out so cute. I’ll admit to only […]

July 2018 Book Reviews

It’s finally time for some book reviews! I have decided that I’m just going to share a few of the books I’ve read in the past three odd months (my last review post was April’s) If you want to see everything I’ve read since then, go check out my Goodreads page! Full Disclosure by Dee […]

Health Update: May/June/July 2018

I am going to admit something to you right away – I’m starting this but have no idea when it’ll get finished and posted! With my OH’s graduation and party on Sunday, my parents coming into town today and donation boxes/a dog park run to do before they get here, I’m just not sure how […]

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Gaming the System: How Kentucky Spends Funding for Students on Athletics September 21, 2018

Kentuckians were forced to consider potential problems with intercollegiate athletics when both the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky were implicated in the recent FBI probe into possibly corrupt and fraudulent recruiting practices in college basketball. Amid the outrage, politicians raised the possibility of serious reforms, such as expanding the oversight of Boards […]

Ann Marie Adams

Why Humanities Programs Suffer as the Humanities Themselves Do Great September 19, 2018

In recent years, the media has given us dire warnings about the “crisis of the humanities.” In article after article, one reads about falling enrollments in college English departments and funding cuts. Inside Higher Ed, a popular website that covers higher education, reports that English majors have declined 20 percent since 2012. History programs have […]

Fabio Rojas

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Why Are Nondiscrimination Statements Not Diverse? September 19, 2018

David Rozado is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Enterprise and Development at Otago Polytechnic (New Zealand). The term diversity can be operationalized demographically (in terms of race, gender, nationality and the like) or intellectually (in terms of viewpoints, beliefs, political opinion and the like) (Duarte et al. 2014). Numerous studies have shown the.. […]

David Rozado

Greg Lukianoff and Jon Haidt on The Coddling of the American Mind: Half Hour of Heterodoxy #34 September 17, 2018

Listen to a discussion of The Coddling of the American Mind, just published this month, with the authors Greg Lukianoff and Jon Haidt. They discuss the history behind the Atlantic article on coddling, Greg's battle with depression, Nietzchean and Stoic views of pain, and other topics. The post Greg Lukianoff and Jon Haidt on The […]

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