As of May, 2010, my new fat book on New Age thought is done.
How did this happen? I thought I was done with fiction, for a while. Goofed off.
Felt done with big wishes. Went to a meeting about Near-Death Experience, and the questions
people asked made me frustrated. I wanted to explain how many of these things are part of one belief system that has some coherence. Then I thought: so EXPLAIN IT.
I joined the club: “explainers of the esoteric.” Turns out, a loooong tradition, of hearty souls like Dolores Cannon, who wrote and wrote and spoke and spoke, tirelessly. (A LOT OF CRAZY ADMIRABLE PEOPLE whom I got to know better.) Each of them put out extraordinary effort—decades of thought, research, writing, with a passion for THE PARANORMAL. I could AMPLIFY it. Be a librarian, which I am.
They say, "Write the book you want to read." I wanted all the New Age stuff on a historical timeline. My mind was spinning for decades.
Now I can contemplate my decades and the ones before them, and see how people make history and culture and inspire each other.
Too much information?
I have author pages on Goodreads and Amazon.
A "resume" on LinkedIn.
A Facebook page.
How did this happen? I thought I was done with fiction, for a while. Goofed off.
Felt done with big wishes. Went to a meeting about Near-Death Experience, and the questions
people asked made me frustrated. I wanted to explain how many of these things are part of one belief system that has some coherence. Then I thought: so EXPLAIN IT.
I joined the club: “explainers of the esoteric.” Turns out, a loooong tradition, of hearty souls like Dolores Cannon, who wrote and wrote and spoke and spoke, tirelessly. (A LOT OF CRAZY ADMIRABLE PEOPLE whom I got to know better.) Each of them put out extraordinary effort—decades of thought, research, writing, with a passion for THE PARANORMAL. I could AMPLIFY it. Be a librarian, which I am.
They say, "Write the book you want to read." I wanted all the New Age stuff on a historical timeline. My mind was spinning for decades.
Now I can contemplate my decades and the ones before them, and see how people make history and culture and inspire each other.
Too much information?
I have author pages on Goodreads and Amazon.
A "resume" on LinkedIn.
A Facebook page.
My ethical will, a.k.a. letter from the grave, is included in
My Words Are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History
published by the Association of Personal Historians and edited by Paula Stallings Yost and my writing mentor Pat McNees.
Pat teaches a very unusual class at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, on writing life stories and legacy letters.
My Words Are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History
published by the Association of Personal Historians and edited by Paula Stallings Yost and my writing mentor Pat McNees.
Pat teaches a very unusual class at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, on writing life stories and legacy letters.
A MEMO to the Educate to Innovate Campaign (2009), recommends top five strategies to increase the number of girls and women in science and engineering education. Made by a group of 20 lead organizations with brainstorming response from 350 experts in the national community of practice. The “July 19th Collaboration” offers a list of 39 focused strategies, each of which can be tied to root causes based on research, and pilot programs with results. Together they comprise a systemic effort to change and correct for historical biases and exclusion. I was the lead writer.
Several papers are in the series that summarize research for researchers on girls and women in S&E education, called Applying Research to Practice, are my pieces:
The Talent Crisis in Science and Engineering
The Application of Title IX to Science and Engineering
Disabilities, Diversity in Science and Engineering Literature review and Info Sheet
pending final review:
Uses of National Statistics About Women and Girls in S&E
The Talent Crisis in Science and Engineering
The Application of Title IX to Science and Engineering
Disabilities, Diversity in Science and Engineering Literature review and Info Sheet
pending final review:
Uses of National Statistics About Women and Girls in S&E