The Becoming Process of Graduate School: An Unsettling Time and Space

For this first day in March, I’m sharing more reflections regarding my first year at Teachers College as a doctoral student in education. I have recently been reading Deleuze and Guattari’s works, along with that of Erin Manning on the minor gesture and will share some of my sense-making process. And as always, I’m sharing original photographs taken during strolls through New York City…

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A Month in Review: On Writing, On Thinking, On Wandering, On In-betweenness, and Other Ruminations

After a break from blogging, here’s an eclectic assortment of thoughts, questions, and adventures: A podcast in which I share a few of my favorite coffee shops in New York City; My dilemma as a writer who is deep in her thoughts at a time when many of us just want taglines and soundbytes; Wonderings and Wanderings as I delve deeper into my graduate studies thinking about Affect Theory, the Posthuman condition, and what to make of it all; A reflection on being forever “stuck” in this space of in-betweenness... This may be a post that resonates with you or bores you to death :D

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10 Years Later: On Being a Student Again

It is 10pm on a Tuesday evening as I’m starting to write this, but this Tuesday feels different. This Tuesday is September 4, 2018, and today was my first day back in school, but not as a teacher. Today, I became an official student again---a doctoral student in an Ed.D program in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching…

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Reflections: On Being a Leader in the 21st Century

I'm sharing with you a "speech" of sorts that I delivered at the National Honor Society Induction Ceremony at my former school in Connecticut. I hope my message resonates with you and prompts you to reflect on your own experiences, ambitions, and talents, while also inspiring you to embrace who you are and to live up to your full potential….

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