A 'Good Enough' Reader

I started this blog as a way to practice writing for the pleasure of writing, writing to communicate, writing to explore—by posting monthly blog-essays. For some thoughts behind this blog, see my inaugural post “From a ‘Good Enough’ Reader.”

Since 1995 when I started graduate school, my reading and writing have been largely instrumental, aimed at keeping my job and proving my worth to other academics. This is a chance to rediscover my own voice and follow my own curiosity without the pressures of academia, and a way to unlearn all the bad writing habits that can come from academic writing. I’m on the older side of Gen-X, queer, nerdy, lover of the natural world, a practicing but non-denomination and non-Zionist Jew, and since childhood have been more art-minded. My academic career moved me in more rational directions in the social sciences and critical humanities. I’m a university professor at a state comprehensive university that is teaching- rather than research-focused, and that focuses on underserved populations of students—poor and working class, immigrants, and historically underrepresented.