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About the rest of me, in brief…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born and raised in California, I still consider myself 100% Californian <\/em>despite getting my Bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service at Georgetown University<\/a>, 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<\/a>.  The rest of my time outside the US was spent in Mexico, D. F<\/a>., Panama<\/a>, and Managua<\/a>, Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the third offshoot of my original WordPress.com blog, with the posts from my first blogging attempt on blogger added on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want my horse blog, go to Wild Horses<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want my research and stats blog, go to Wild World of Research<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> horses or research, so this will be the catch-all place for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My passions are horses and writing.  Well, and wine<\/a> and cheese.  And I cannot imagine life without music and intellectual debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Links from my old blog:<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

My Cowboy Dressage book<\/a> about Eitan-Beth Halachmy and the story of Cowboy Dressage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My publisher just put up a Q&A with pictures<\/a> from my horsey-past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

curriculum vitae<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Science Framework profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academia.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Gate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 2017-2018 I was a Dissertation Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent interview resulted in a brief mention in a CNN story, Parents, stop feeling so guilty about TV time<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a> for one semester, and Cognitive Psychology at OU my last semester there (“COVID spring”), which began in the classroom and transitioned online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started teaching General Psychology as an Adjunct at College of the Sequoias<\/a> 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<\/a> (research design and statistical methods), and I have at least one book project I would like to begin to work on seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> blog, but it does to the others…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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