Why Am I Talking?

Flashbacks to faculty gaffs from unfiltered comments. Use the “Why Am I Talking” (WAIT) Plan to be heard in the right ways at the right times.

Do Life

I despise the term “work-life balance.” The semantics evoke work and life as opposing forces locked in conflict – the bobbing bar of a doomed tightrope walker, a teeter-totter whose fulcrum defies equilibrium. Because we rarely talk of achieving balance, it is also code for inevitable failure or guilt. I propose an alternative. Life encompasses work. […]