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Back to Life, Back to Blog

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Sharyn

https://www.currentobituary.com/member/obit/247444#tab-obituary I’ve been oddly fortunate to have not experienced much tragedy or death in my life. Some of that is due to just dumb luck, but a lot of it may simply be numbers: I grew up in a pretty … Continue reading →

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A Reading List is Not a Syllabus

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Sharyn

This has been a dreadful week, as protests for justice have faced repeated attacks and brutality from law enforcement across the country. (Note: if you’re reading this and the police who murdered Breonna Taylor have not yet face accountability, click … Continue reading →

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Samurai, Ronin, Accountant?

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Sharyn

I recently watched Kenji Mizoguchi’s film The 47 Ronin, released in two parts in 1941 and 1942, and based on a play cycle written by  Seika Mayama. The film tells the historical tale of 47 (or 46, depending on the … Continue reading →

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Using the Sacred to Calm the Profane

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Sharyn

This is not going to be a post about COVID-19 and the unprecedented amount of upheaval and death it is causing in the US right now. You have plenty of news and social media sites for that. This is not … Continue reading →

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A Disappointing HARRIET

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Sharyn

Over Thanksgiving break, I went with my sister to see the film Harriet, directed by Kasi Lemmons and starring Cynthia Erivo. After we left the theater, my sister asked, “why did I find that so disappointing?” Her point was that … Continue reading →

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Daily Writing Achievement Unlocked!

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Sharyn

I didn’t make this goal public, but last weekend I determined that I would write 5 blog posts this week, one each day, to jump start my writing habits for the summer. And while making the 5th blog post a … Continue reading →

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What’s a Process? Let’s Experiment.

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Sharyn

What is your process for creating whatever it is that you create? What’s my process? Truthfully, I have no clear idea, which might be why I struggle with productivity so much in my career. (Teaching a 4-4 load as a … Continue reading →

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Enough with the Balloons, Already!

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Sharyn

An article about the preparations for this year’s Indianapolis 500 race caught my eye last week. In the story, Indy Star reporters check the claim made by the organizers that the balloons they release every year to celebrate the event … Continue reading →

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Organizational Cultures – a Matter of Life and Death Part II

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Sharyn

For Part I, read here Last time, I was discussing the lessons that could be learned and applied from organizational problems at NASA and its contractors which led to the Challenger (and Columbia) disaster. This post builds off of some … Continue reading →

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Prison & Performance

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Sharyn

Welcome to the start of the brand new 2017-18 academic year! I am feeling sightly off-kilter still, since the ECLIPSE took up quite a bit of the first day of our semester, but I was happy our students got a … Continue reading →

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