Congratulations! Writing a book IS really hard!! And consuming. It's absolutely a thing to talk about and to celebrate!

Hi Kevin. I'd love to talk with you about indexing your book. I have an unexpected opening and I have worked on a number of recent faculty development texts (I'm also a faculty developer). Website is rudyleon.com.

This indexer just got all the warm feelings. It's always nice to see indexes celebrated!

Your book sounds fascinating! Have you booked an indexer yet? I'm very interested.

I couldn't parse it. Grammar is what tells you how to parse it. "Fell" is not in a parseable location, grammar-wise, in that sentence.

College-aged young women seem a bit old for his preferences though... /s

yeah, that he has kept his job through this has been really disturbing

Because the way they got tenure was by spending seven years shutting down their responses to injustice. By the time they were free to respond, they had been groomed into tidy little obedient and silent perpetuators.

Because it's grammatically a nightmare?

It's fascinating. It will be out in the next two or three months!

You change that by getting involved with your local party and getting on your state steering committee for the party and then ending caucuses. By law or caveat, however your state works.

Running for office as a democrat is a huge part of why I no longer claim the Democratic party as my party.

Party politics are really gross. I'm a registered independent because it's not my party, and it's not how I want my politics to be represented in the world. Democrats have to earn my vote

But that's why it needs to change. Caucusing to **get on the ballot** is incredibly elitist. Only independently wealthy folks can get name recognition and excitement up high enough to get people to spend a precious day of time advocating for the chance to create a possibility of voting for someone.

I own a small business. I would never have been able to do so before ACA, because I wouldn't have been able to purchase individual healthcare. The individual insurance market was almost non-existent, and exorbitant.

ACA allows single women to own small businesses

I think you described something that works in a community of Old Yore, where everyone knows everyone and the town can gather in the church and decide who to elect. In modern life, what a nightmare!

When I ran for office, I simply filed my intent, and got on the ballot. I decided to run and I did so. The notion of having to campaign (and thus fundraise) before campaigning (to raise awareness of my existence for the caucus to get my name on the ballot) is obscene, really.

As a descendant (all lines) of folks who fled pogroms, I think of them as singular thing, one category. But it appears historians see them as deeply embedded in disparate other histories and not singular.

A research gap I offer the academy! (with the hope I'll be hired to edit/index the result)

Thanks. I found a book of essays (Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History) and a book from 1993 (The Pogrom Tradition in Eastern Europe).

Fiction, in general. :) I think the world-building is just fundamentally different, visibly.

I edit and index scholarly non-fiction for a living, and the gender of the author plays no role in that.