About the rest of me, in brief…
Born and raised in California, I still consider myself 100% Californian despite getting my Bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and subsequently living abroad for over 16 years. Well, let’s make that 55% Californian and 45% Spanish, since I’ve spent a total of nearly eleven years living in Spain, primarily in and around Madrid, although my first Spanish home was Palencia. The rest of my time outside the US was spent in Mexico, D. F., Panama, and Managua, Nicaragua.
This is the third offshoot of my original WordPress.com blog, with the posts from my first blogging attempt on blogger added on.
If you want my horse blog, go to Wild Horses.
If you want my research and stats blog, go to Wild World of Research.
But if you want miscellaneous musings, opinions, random stuff, and tales of my life, stick around here. Not sure where this one is going to go, but chances are I’ll want to write on topics that aren’t horses or research, so this will be the catch-all place for that.
My passions are horses and writing. Well, and wine and cheese. And I cannot imagine life without music and intellectual debate.
Links from my old blog:
My Cowboy Dressage book about Eitan-Beth Halachmy and the story of Cowboy Dressage!
My publisher just put up a Q&A with pictures from my horsey-past.
Open Science Framework profile
For 2017-2018 I was a Dissertation Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing.
A recent interview resulted in a brief mention in a CNN story, Parents, stop feeling so guilty about TV time.
From 2018 through May 2020, I continued at University of Oklahoma as a postdoctoral fellow in the Imagination and Development lab. I also taught Advanced Social Psychology at Cameron University for one semester, and Cognitive Psychology at OU my last semester there (“COVID spring”), which began in the classroom and transitioned online.
I started teaching General Psychology as an Adjunct at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, CA. in March 2020. For the present, I will continue teaching at COS. Despite COVID restrictions, I am very much enjoying the students! I am beginning to expand my work as a freelance consultant (research design and statistical methods), and I have at least one book project I would like to begin to work on seriously.
Disclosure: I am planning to monetize this site eventually. First step involves amazon, hence “As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.” Well, this probably won’t apply to this blog, but it does to the others…
Hi Jessica,
It has been ages I know but I wanted to say hi. I retired in 2013 and am living a wonderful life with Jim and
my two new cats (1 year old rescues we got when they were 3 months old) They are brother Calyx and sister Corolla.
I would love to keep in touch. Feel free to call or email me. (707) 499-9159. I don’t do much with all the social media. I
am President of ur local Retired Teacher’s Association so I do have a Face Book page that I try to keep up with.
Calrta North Coast Div 27
Sincerely,
Donna
Hi Donna!
Great to hear from you. Glad you are doing well! I’ll shoot you an email so you can contact me there.
Yours,
Jessica