A New Page

That's what's great about academia: opportunities for new beginnings abound. With each semester comes a new crop of students and a chance to begin again, to redesign courses, revise approaches, and experiment. The same can be true of blogs - if you are able to separate yourself from your past and shed your persona.

While I have no plans of shedding my persona -- I am relinquishing the past and starting fresh with a new blog that reflects my life today. JustTenured no longer works. I am no longer recently tenured and no longer in a phase characterized by turmoil, transition, and illness. Though I have bipolar disorder, it no longer defines me. I've needed to let go of that history -- the tumultuous transition reflected in my old blog. I began it married. In the pages I worked through a whole lot of craziness - in my head and around me - chronicled a dangerous time in my life - and moved towards wellness, very slowly. Now I'm some place different. And writing here became difficult, constraining. So it's time to create a new place.