In The Pkin Patch is a place that welcomes discussion and random sharing on all sorts of issues. I have no particular plan for what I will or will not address — it all depends on what gets me going on any particular day.
I am an academic who believes members of the academy need to take steps to ensure that what we learn, research, and know is accessible to everyone — especially all those people we are studying! I’m also the mother of a daughter adopted from China, the wife to my high school sweetheart, a college professor to some of the best students on the planet, a PhD student in cultural studies (who should really be writing my dissertation) whose research focuses on memory studies and adoption studies, an atheist who is okay with people believing other things as long as they are okay with me doing the same (and a defector from my Catholic extended family who wasn’t), a cat lover, a football fan, a perpetual trying-to-be-organizeder, a strongly opinionated “bitch” (and proud of it! — partially because my mother so hates this word), a lover of well-reasoned argumentation, and a person who does not suffer fools gladly.
A few decoding clues:
DM is my husband
Pkin is my daughter
I’ll add others as I find them (if there is some abbreviation, acronym, or initialization I use and you aren’t sure what it is, please ask and I’ll explain and add it here)
