Juggling Flaming Chainsaws

Joanne M. Marshall, Iowa State University, USAJeffrey S. Brooks, Iowa State University, USAKathleen M. Brown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , USALeslie Hazle Bussey, Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement , USA

• Foreword: The See-Saw of Work-Life Balance; Michelle D. Young.Why Juggling Flaming Chainsaws in Educational Leadership? Joanne M. Marshall.A Note on Methodology: Autoethnography and Other Reflections; George Theoharis.Part I. Early Career Scholars.Chapter 3. Working the Spirit: Narrating Work and Life; Noelle Witherspoon Arnold.Chapter 4. The Journey to Fulfillment: Varied Paths, Same Destination; Lisa Bass.Chapter 5. Finding Balance in a Tilted World; Karen Stansberry Beard.Chapter 6. Reflections From the Brink of Tenure Application: Working Through Various Pathways; Bill Black.Chapter 7. In and Out: Finding Work-Life Balance as a Queer Scholar; Christa Boske.Chapter 8. myworklifebalance.edu; Melanie C. Brooks.Chapter 9. The Good Mother: One Woman's Battle With the Hegemony of Work-Life Balance; Leslie Hazle Bussey.Chapter 10. Fantasies and Strategies: A Graduate Student's Critical Examination of Work/Life Balance; Bradley Carpenter.Chapter 11. Running Against the Clock: Staying Present on the Road to Tenure; Sarah Diem.Chapter 12. Navigating the Terrain of the Three Selfs: Work-Self, Family-Self, Personal-Self; Kathrine J. Gutierrez.Chapter 13. Working Without a Net: One Professor's Reflections on Work-Life Balance; Kristina A. Hesbol.Chapter 14. Where Am I at Right Now, Anyway?! Blurred Boundaries of Home and Work Life; Muhammad Khalifa.Chapter 15. One Family, Different Perspectives on Work-Life Balance; Lisa A. W. Kensler.Chapter 16. Flying by the Seat of My Pants; Katherine Cumings Mansfield.Chapter 17. Singing Along With the Lone Ranger; Joanne M. Marshall.Chapter 18. From Condescending Cabbies to Caring Coaches: Basketball, Fatherhood, and the Shaping of Professional Feedback; Peter Miller.Chapter 19. Work-Life Balance for Latina Faculty in a Hispanic-Serving Institution; Elizabeth T. Murakami.Chapter 20. Pieces of a Professor: Living With Limitations, but High Expectations; Latish C. Reed.Chapter 21. Creating Space; Martin Scanlan.Chapter 22. A PhD Is a Family Affair; Douglas Wieczorek.Part II. Midcareer Scholars.Chapter 23. Working to Live and Living to Work: Finding Balance in the Academy; Floyd D. Beachum.Chapter 24. How Can We Balance Work and Life? Kathryn Bell McKenzie.Chapter 25. Be Kind, Be Critical, Be Productive: Nine Suggestions for Keeping Your Life and Work in Balance; Jeffrey S. Brooks.Chapter 26. Achieving Work-Life Balance: Reflections of a Midlife Entrant to the Academy; Tricia Browne-Ferrigno.Chapter 27. Seeking More Than Balance: An American Indian Female Scholar's Attempt to Navigate the Perceived Work-Life Divide; Susan C. Faircloth.Chapter 28. Mommy Guilt and Chicken Coops: Work/Life Imbalance on the Tenure Track; Bonnie C. Fusarelli.Chapter 29. Finding Courage and Choice on the Journey to a Balanced Life; Mark A. Gooden.Chapter 30. Gen X in the Academy; Liz Hollingworth.Chapter 31. Man, I Work Like a Woman; Eric A. Houck.Chapter 32. Why Balance Isn't the Best Option: Changing Our Perspective to Work-Life Integration; Audrey J. Jaeger.Chapter 33. Taking Control? Gaïtane Jean-Marie.Chapter 34. A Perspective of Work-Life Balance in the Academy From a Single Male; Carlos R. McCray.Chapter 35. Militello & Sons, Inc.: A Family Business; Matthew Militello and Dominic Militello.Chapter 36. Navigating a Work-Life Balance in the Era of High-Stakes Accountability; Stacey A. Rutledge.Part III. Senior Scholars.Chapter 37. Thrown Out of Balance to Find True Balance ...; Kathleen M. Brown.Chapter 38. Se Hace el Camino al Andar/We Make the Road by Walking: Ruminations on Work, Love, and Struggle in a Latino Academic Household; Gerardo R. López, Marina Nayar López, and Cora Lucía López.Chapter 39. Not Even Built for Balance; Catherine A. Lugg.Chapter 40. Role of Values in Work-Life Balance: Restoring Harmony and Reclaiming Purpose; Anthony H. Normore.Chapter 41. Boomer Bred: Professional and Personal Reflections and Strategies to Survive in the Professoriate; Rosemary Papa.Chapter 42. Don't Stop Believin' in the Importance of Work-Life Balance; Linda Skrla.Chapter 43. Avis la Fin at the Downtown Grill and Brewery; Autumn K. Tooms.