Get a Life, PhD

You likely have heard this advice before. You may have even followed it for some time. You may have even read the book: Never Check Emai...

A question that often comes up when I do campus workshops on work/life balance is how and when busy academic parents can find time to exerc...

I have been traveling a lot for work lately, which is great, but it also means I need to make decisions about which invitations to accept, a...

When I started writing Get a Life, PhD , my twins were eight years old and my youngest was five. Thus, much of my blog has been from the pe...

There has been a lot of talk going around the Internet lately about how difficult it is to be a parent – particularly a mother – and an acad...

Similar to many academics, I live in a small college town in the middle of nowhere, or at least that’s how it seemed when I first moved to L...

I had three kids while I was in graduate school, yet managed to finish my MA thesis and PhD in six years. I think that many of the lessons I...