Protected: Dear White America: Please Stop Asking To Eat My Brains.
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MFA Years Introduction: Poetry as Practiced, Magickal Ritual
My first post went live yesterday over at The MFA Years, a blog and website featuring creative writing program graduate students talking about their experiences with academia and literature. I’ll be contributing as a first-year PhD student, and I posted about settling into Milwaukee, dissertation-brain, and how the magic happens. Check it out here >>.
Land of Dark and Light
It’s not sunset out there, I must remind myself. Sunset won’t happen for a few hours yet, and it will never be the kind of golden-hour light I’d see back in Texas. But the shadows are long–the valleys between buildings and hills become pockets which never warm. It looks and feels like sunset. It’s afternoon. …
Farewell 2015
It was an exciting year, to be sure. I finished up my Zell Postgraduate Fellowship at the University of Michigan and moved to Norway. I visited the lookout at Sand Mountain, put my toes in the McKenzie river I’m named for, and went to London for the first time. I celebrated my first 17th of …
Helt Texas, helt koselig
It was an undiscovered country for me, too. It wasn’t a place I was thinking about beyond Viking helmets and Northern Lights. To be fair, Norway itself thinks about those things often enough.
Velkommen til Norge
I moved to Trondheim, Norway, a month ago, to live with my fiancé. It’s just about the last place on earth I imagined I would end up, and I’m still not wholly convinced of my permanence here.
How to Format A Table of Contents in Word
If you’re struggling with formatting a contents page for your manuscript and keeping it up to date, here’s my current method for creating an Automatic Table of Contents in Word. There are also tips for moving individual pieces around and keeping the contents page up to date with a few steps, and, bonus, the document will be easily navigable as an outline through …