Robin Writes – Page 17 – Finding history in food, art, and pop culture

I recently read these two articles, both about the children of orphaned men who used DNA testing to discover unexpected ethnic identities:

Over the past two years, I’ve been embarrassed to tell people where I live. Read More

I love onions, but I also hate them because people cook them badly. Read More

Graduate school is a tightly-kept gate, and frankly it shouldn’t be that way. I’ve gathered some wisdom about how to succeed in making it past the gatekeepers from my own experiences as well as those of my friends in various fields. Read More

My research year is going to start out pretty typically for a history PhD – a few months in an archive looking at some old manuscripts. And then things are going to get really weird when I bring an x-ray gun to Italy so I can take readings on things made of copper. Read More

Recently, my medievalist cohort and I got together for a few sessions with the Center for Teaching and Learning to talk about how to write a syllabus, and all my frustrations about TAing came crashing down on me at once. Read More

Homemade gyros, a la my mother-in-law. Read More

Pregnancy, like any major life event, has a steep learning curve. You can’t really prepare, because you don’t know how things are going to be for you, but at the same time, you can learn about the range of things you can expect and know what resources are available once you run into trouble.

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