Blog Posts

The danger-to-fun ratio

By Kate Blackwood / June 29, 2020

The choice was random, but it almost got me into the kind of accident cyclists dread.

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Writing on the sidewalk

By Kate Blackwood / June 18, 2020

Sidewalk art is a thing this spring.

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People with signs: Justice Now

Educating myself during #ShutDownAcademia

By Kate Blackwood / June 10, 2020

It gave me hope to be part of a day in which instructors, advisers, staff, and students step back—whether to heal or to learn—and focus on the unjust elements of academia.

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Starry sky and small white tent

Book review: Reading Station Eleven during a pandemic

By Kate Blackwood / May 13, 2020

After a second reading—this one during a pandemic much less severe than the one in the book—I see more. It’s a story about gratitude. And grace. And tenacity.

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