Equal parts serendipity and determination recently brought me the enviable gift of two weeks in Greece. I have wanted to visit the birthplace of western democracy, philosophy, and theatre for decades; I also desperately needed a vacation—a change of ...

 Guest Post by Renée Cramer

When I left my first tenure-track job, my department chair reassured me that he had seen the moving coming.  “Of course you’re moving on.  You’re ambitious,” he said, and shrugged – then hastened to add, “which I mean as ...

By guest author Renée Cramer

Play with me for a moment, please:

Imagine that you’re standing on a bosu ball, on one leg, while juggling flaming batons.

Imagine that you are an elephant expected to sit precariously on the tiniest of stools, while m...

Not surprisingly, a good percentage of my clients are academics. I came up through academia and my day job is in academic administration. Higher education has been good for me and good to me, and I marvel every day at the kind of work my colleagues d...

Guest Writer: Caroline J. Simon

A story often wanders into my life just when I need it. I first encountered Isak Dinesen’s Babette’s Feast as an audiobook I was playing while I drove across the country to begin a new job. I had a lot of apprehension...

Let’s get a little existential on Press Release this month, shall we?!

Why am I here?
What am I doing?
Why does it matter?
What is my purpose?
What is the point of it all?

Human beings have been asking these questions for eons in all areas of discour...