What are you going to do after you’ve watched your favorite shows, eaten the ice cream, settled the kids, taken your midterms… and you’re bored? Now’s the perfect time to download my book of Quarantine Questions!
Not long after my spouse and I began spending time together, he mentioned that he had student loans. “How much?” I asked. He paused. “About $150,000.” As one of the first people in his family to go to college, Amos* was caught in a situation common to turn of…
Well, the gentleman gave an excellent Christmas gift this year… even after I said I didn’t need anything. If money were no object… If money were no object, I’d put an end to class disparity. If money were no object, I’d topple corrupt financial systems for you. If money…
There are many ways to hold a Thanksgiving dinner. Often, we throw a party when good things happen. A father celebrates when his missing son comes home. A child is born, people marry, finish school, or get promoted. The harvest comes in, a trade deal is made, or fattened…
Oddly enough, I started writing about bucket lists… and ended up exploring my thoughts on wills. So here we are. I suppose I felt I had to set bucket lists in the context of our wills, because I see both as a snapshot of our hopes and desires at…
I love David Sherlock’s post on the blog posts he didn’t write in 2017. It lets him set aside some rather unwieldy beasts, yet share what he’s been wrestling with. His never-posts range from education to gendered toys to ‘everything that is shit in academia,’ which is exactly the…
I sometimes think that as an anthropologist, I should be better at understanding our place in the world, the people I live among, and how they dwell in this place. Yet with every move, I’m surprised by what I don’t expect. Warning–this is a long post!–but dig in, if you’re so inclined….