It is blowing my mind that I left my full-time job more than four months ago - does time go even faster when you’re NOT working? It’s been really interesting to see how time has changed when I don’t have structure. Days can get away from me. While working there were weeks that felt like months, like there was no way they would end or that I would make it through them. Now I wake…
It’s been two months since I quit my job. The first week and a half felt somewhat like vacation, somewhat like the usual end of semester rhythm where you finally have time to get your life together. Then we went into full-on wedding prep mode, and June was a whirlwind of wedding, honeymoon, and contracting and recovering from COVID. July has rushed by with some projects and speaking engagements, and here I am in the…
In a nondescript Louisville restaurant, over conference lunch and a couple of beers, a small group of individuals came together to imagine a new academic advising community for NACADA, one focused on the well-being of all engaged in the advising project - staff and students alike. NACADA is the Global Community for Academic Advising; its website vision tells us that it's "the leading association globally for the advancement of student success through excellence in academic…