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Drawing by Leo, approximately age 3. Transferred to fabric and stitched.

With a nod to Joan Didion. This is my advice for coping with a cancer diagnosis (and perhaps also for coping with the academic job market).

Family portrait drawn by Ezra, about age 7.

My mother said this to me after I complained that her co-workers in rural Tennessee treated me weird.

My dissertation completion motto.

My mother said this to me when I was young, and her mother said it to her. I made this is a mother's day gift for her a few years ago.

My mother used to say this to me when I was a teenager and she thought I was being unhygenic.

This was a square for my friends' wedding Chuppah. It was the second attempt at realizing this slogan.

I remember that this phrase was from a women's magazine from the 1970s. My memory may be flawed. This was the first attempt I made in this genre.

Rough translation from the Latin is "You must be a baby for your own benefit." Which is a translation to Latin of one of the things I say to myself sometimes, "Sometimes you have to be your own toddler." Which really means, sometimes you have to…