I just switched my old blog over to this new professional site, so that's why we're here. Welcome to you!
To anyone noting the lapse in blog posts, there are reasons for that. I got a full-time job at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign when we returned to Champaign from Sydney in June 2019. Mostly, I've been directing an economics center devoted to addressing sustainability problems and advising agricultural economics graduate students in their studies and career pursuits. I also picked up my own graduate studies (Master of Science in Agricultural Education) and am set to finish this March.
Photo: Motherhood in 2020
Oh yeah, I also carried and gave birth to my daughter, Bronte Grace. She is exquisite. And more than the end of a paragraph. I'll fill you in on her soon.
Photo: Bronte Grace at exactly one month old
Then there was the separate thing of this madhouse of a year. For so many, it was a year of devastation, but also a year of reckoning and waking up. In some ways, I'm glad I wasn't writing much this past year. There was so much to DO and learn and change. Plus, most days we were surviving with a toddler and sometimes newborn with sporadic childcare. Today, though, the sun is out, it's 45 degrees F and I am grateful to be alive. YES MA'AM! More on this past year later.
Photo: Family of four at Meadowbrook Park, Urbana, Illinois
In conclusion, I am just coming out of the three-month newborn phase and nearly finished with the MS degree, so I wanted to come out of the woodwork to say "Hi. Yes, I'm still earth-side. I miss you."
More to come in the next few months as I discipline myself to write more consistently (once I snag that MS). I'll be writing more on the familiar themes of home-front motherhood and working-mom motherhood, but I will also focus on food and agriculture justice, education, and sustainability, as well as creative design and business communication. All these hats keep popping on and off.
Air kiss & high fives,
Katy
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