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FINDING A BALANCE
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The invitation to do this autobiographical article reached me on my seventieth birthday, catching me in an unusually reflective mood, so I decided to take a stab at it. If nothing else, I could honor my mentors, especially James Anderson and René Millon. Without them I might still be doing archaeology but it would be a very different sort of archaeology, probably not as good and certainly not as much fun. But I don't find this kind of writing easy. Social scientists are not used to having “I” as the main subject of a sentence, an analogy perhaps to the difficulty we have in maintaining a balance between our professional and personal lives. However, I seem to have overcome that academic modesty, as this paragraph demonstrates. So here we go.
Title: FINDING A BALANCE
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The invitation to do this autobiographical article reached me on my seventieth birthday, catching me in an unusually reflective mood, so I decided to take a stab at it.
If nothing else, I could honor my mentors, especially James Anderson and René Millon.
Without them I might still be doing archaeology but it would be a very different sort of archaeology, probably not as good and certainly not as much fun.
But I don't find this kind of writing easy.
Social scientists are not used to having “I” as the main subject of a sentence, an analogy perhaps to the difficulty we have in maintaining a balance between our professional and personal lives.
However, I seem to have overcome that academic modesty, as this paragraph demonstrates.
So here we go.
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