Wackademia: What it is, and what it is NOT

I'm starting a new blog, partly because I wanted a more user-friendly venue. But also because I felt the increasing need to share my thoughts during a very transitional time in my life. Or maybe it's not really transitional, perhaps I am finally living my life and I am so completely astounded by the realness of it all that I need some place to dump it all. Either way, I intend to share my musings about marriage, motherhood, family, and the everyday as I wade my way through the next six (or so!) years of what I've started calling "wackademia", the crazy, challenging, rewarding, and perplexing professional path I've chosen to follow (for now).

So what to expect? Frank stories about life on the tenure-track from one of two (soon to be three) women in an all male science department. What not to expect? Ranting feminist soliloquies about the inherent cultural inequities in 'the ivory tower' or cutesy stories about being a working 'mommy'. The blogger market is already full of jaded women and self-righteous charity cases. I was once told that the only way to change a culture is to live by example. So, here I go, my opportunity to make a difference in wackademia.