Mommy Mondays: Initial Reflections from a Pseudo-Single Mom

July 15, 2013
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My family is not yet finished with our current mommy’s-getting-a-PhD adventure when we have decided to embark on our next big adventure . . . we’re moving to Miami. My husband has accepted a position as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. And while we’re […]

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When Academia and Social Media Collide

July 11, 2013

It’s not too often that my academic and social media worlds collide. But now they have. I had known that you could cite blog posts and emails in scholarly work, but apparently you can do that same for YouTube videos, tweets, and Facebook posts as well. And thanks to the folks at Teachbytes, there is […]

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[PsychToday] WWI and Istanbul: Using Music to Bind Us

June 29, 2013
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The story goes that on Christmas Eve 1914, in the middle of a brutal WWI battle between the British and the Germans, the sound of gunfire was replaced by singing voices. It happened spontaneously, spreading slowly throughout the troops as the camps sang their favorite Christmas hymns. Sometimes they alternated songs, but . . . […]

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Mommy Mondays: My Mommy Guilt

June 17, 2013
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I have never doubted my decision to be a working mommy. I firmly believe that working makes me a better mommy and that being a mommy makes me a better professional (I also firmly believe that this choice is my own and it doesn’t work for everyone). But the so-called “mommy guilt” kicks in occasionally. […]

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[PsychToday] Music, Adaptation, and Evolution

June 14, 2013
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One of the advantages of working on a PhD is that you get to do a lot of reading and re-reading. I find the re-reading more interesting than the initial reading as I read the article or book in a different way, with a different level of depth and understanding. This happened recently when re-reading […]

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Mommy Mondays: Get a Job…?

June 10, 2013
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It’s amazing how the most innocent questions can sometimes generative the most thought. It happened this morning. My son and I had a lovely 15-minute conversation that started with a single question: Momma, how can I make money so that I can buy things? My first instinct (which I think is a rather natural one) […]

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Seeds of Inspiration and the Clinical-Research Feedback Loop

June 7, 2013
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It struck me recently that I am now two years into a PhD program, yet have spent relatively little time actually blogging about my program and what I’m working on! This is a change for me as my first several years of blogging were centered around sharing my experiences and what I was learning. But […]

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Mommy Mondays: 9 Tips for Surviving Travel with a Preschooler

June 3, 2013
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Nine days, 3 states, 5 plane trips, 1 rental car, 2 carseats, 5 airports, 7 car trips (90-360 minutes each), and 1 lake later . . . I have survived a mammoth family trip and have lived to blog about it. There’s no doubt that traveling with kids is much more mentally exhausting than traveling […]

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[PsychToday] “Thank You Mister Speaker”: On Music and Social Behaviors

May 9, 2013
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Think music doesn’t matter in our lives? You would be hard-pressed to watch this 2 minute clip and not see how music can change the entire mood of a rather serious group of people…Read more

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