Rhonda Kitchens
WHO: David Hammond
BOOK: Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right
AUTHOR: Ray Raphael
Misconceptions of the Constitution. I liked it. It's a straightforward and easy read. I think that currently the more we know about the Constitution, the better.
To keep up with your profession, what are your go-to books, blogs, journals, social media follows, and/or people?
I guess I mostly learn by connecting with other people. I attend training or Q&A sessions for community and technical college staff offered by folks at the state level. I try to stay connected with people at other colleges and universities with similar roles to share best practices. We use listservs, Teams, Zoom or Webex meetings, and occasionally we just email someone we think has a good idea or advice to share. I search other college websites for ideas as well. Most importantly, I connect with my BBCC colleagues in various departments where we share ideas for how we can continue to improve the way we work and how we serve students.
What would people be surprised to know about you?
I used to be incredibly shy. I once had a bad mark on a performance review because I didn’t participate enough in team meetings. Be careful what you ask for, supervisors!
If you could spend the rest of your life free and supported to research one topic, what would it be?
With such a vast, diverse, and ever-changing world, I can’t imagine ever being satisfied focusing on a single topic. When asked the question about the one item I would want if stranded alone on an island, my answer is “a huge library”.
What book, poem, or study have you read that engaged you so deeply you were changed?
That’s a difficult one to answer because there are a lot of books, poems and research studies that have shaped me along the way. My latest favorite read is a book on critical thinking skills: “The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake” by Dr. Steven Novella. I find myself doing a lot of healthy self-reflection on my journey through this book.
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"Meanwhile, improving by 1 percent isn’t particularly notable—sometimes it isn’t even noticeable—but it can be far more meaningful, especially in the long run. The difference a tiny improvement can make over time is astounding. Here’s how the math works out: if you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done." Clear
As Veit suggests, nutritional literacy, refrigerators, changing shopping habits, all became markers of the middle class. She notes further, that “of all the changes in American food culture forged in the era of the Great War, perhaps the most extreme and lasting is in American’s attitudes towards their bodies” (186). In the political realm, foreign food aid would go on to become a hallmark of American foreign policy." Journal of Social History
"Perhaps you’ve heard that it takes twenty-one days to build a habit. Unfortunately, there is no scientific evidence to back this up (Clear 2014). It actually takes more like two to three years to build a healthy habit." Lee-Bagley
Writing perfect prose effortlessly does not usually occur for most writers. Give yourself permission not to be perfect. Trust that your writing will evolve, and the more time that you spend in the habit of writing, the more comfortable you will be." Roseman
"Félix Ravaisson's seminal philosophical essay, Of Habit, was first published in French in 1838. It traces the origins and development of habit and proposes the principle of habit as the foundation of human nature." Publisher
"Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years." Wikipedia
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Clear, J. (2018). Atomic habits : Tiny changes, remarkable results : An easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones.
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Lee-Baggley, D. (2019). Healthy habits suck : How to get off the couch and live a healthy life… even If you don’t want to. New
Harbinger Publications.
Le Fanu, J. S. (2009). In a Glass Darkly. The Floating Press."=
Ravaisson, F. (2008). Of Habit. Continuum.
Roseman, J. (2003). The way of the woman writer. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315785936
Veit, H. (2013). Modern food, moral food: Self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth
century. The University of North Carolina Press. https://doi.org/10.5149/9781469607719_veit
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