About

I’m not really a professor’s wife, though I might be someday. I came up with this title as a response to the feeling that because I seemed not to be doing anything substantial career-wise, and because my husband is working on a prestigious degree, I became an afterthought: measured by my husband’s success, relegated to the background, an undetermined entity. Just a wife.

Marriage, with its comforts and surprises, has been the defining thing in my adult life. However, in the last few years, I have been and am becoming: the wife of a PhD candidate, a grad school dropout, a mother of daughters, a poor household manager, a teacher, a  feminist, a Christian, a writer, a reader. We’ve recently downsized so that I can stay home with the little ones while my husband finishes his dissertation.

I blog mostly about reading, writing, parenting and faith.

I can be contacted at ec.harmer [at] gmail [dot] com.