Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019...Change Is Coming.
Oh. My. Goodness. I haven't posted on this blog since August. For months I've meant to start writing on here and I've missed it. There are going to be some changes happening this year, both in my life and on this blog, and I'll get to those in a moment. But first, let's recap 2018, because when I look back to where my life was at last January, I'm kind of astounded. January and February Frantically writing the last few chapters of my dissertation. I think I still had my final case study (on Michelle Obama), my conclusion and my introduction chapters to write at the start of January. Knowing that the various deadlines to defend and graduate by the spring were rapidly approaching lit a fire under me and I wrote three chapters in less than the amount of time it took me to write my first chapter the previous summer. Even my committee members were responding to my emails with the drafts with comments like "Wow! That was fast!" since I'd sent them a
