First publication in my new profession, woo hoo!

[Mikimouse]

FINALLY! I have sent out two articles for review this year and one came back as a revise and resubmit, and this one was accepted for publication. I am absolutely thrilled by the news.

[lizziegrace]

1. Congratulations!

May I ask what your new profession is??

:hi:

[Mikimouse]

5. I'm a Sociologist...finally fulfilled my lifelong dream of...

joining the acadame. I had publications in Nuclear Medicine in the former life, but this is my first in Sociology. I am currently beside myself, having just gotten the acceptance message about an hour or so ago.

[lizziegrace]

11. I love it!

Someone who's realized a dream. This IS a special day!

:)

[Mikimouse]

20. Thank you...it was my dream. It got sidelined for many years...

and almost got derailed by my second wife, who decided to turn our partnership into a competition, with constant disparaging critiques of my work and my chosen love, which is teaching.

[Floogeldy]

2. Awesome!

Congrats. :)

[Mikimouse]

6. Thank you very kindly, I am honored

:party:

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Congrats! Miki! here's to the first of many more.

:toast: :yourock:

[Mikimouse]

7. Thank you Mrs. G...for a while, I was wondering if I was worthy of ...

the title of academic, but this really helps.:bounce:

[Redstone]

4. "This one" what? Do we get to read it?

If you have to wait for publication before letting us see the text, please post a link when you can.

I am very pleased for you. It's an unbeatable thrill to get that acceptance contract. Can't wait to read your article.

Redstone

[Mikimouse]

8. I'll have a link to it in February...that is the publication date...

for the journal. :smoke: Thank you very much for the kind words.

[Redstone]

14. OK. Be sure to post a link for us, OK?

Getting published. What a thrill.

And guess what? It never entirely wears off. that's the REALLY good part.

Here's to you and a great career in the years to come.

Redstone

[Mikimouse]

19. I promise to post a link...and you are absolutely right...

it never does wear off. I remember how thrilled i was when i had my first co-authored article in The American Heart associations journal- Circulation (in 83, I think, I'd have to look at the re-prints), and I still live off that one and the others. Sometimes looking back is a very positive thing.

[Redstone]

24. Yup. One of my clearest memories is of getting the FedEx envelope

with an acceptance letter from Fine Woodworking magazine...not the most prestigious publication, and didn't pay much, but it was an essay that was very close to my heart, so it was a thrill that someone wanted to print it.

Enjoy.

Redstone

[Mikimouse]

26. Hmmm That title rings a bell...

are they the ones that published an article years ago about a home made drum sander? I actually made one from their instructions and loved it. Congrats to you for being published in one of those. I'm a frustrated ex-woodworker now, but in my heyday, I built furniture, and did some rough construction on the side as well. Cool stuff!

[Redstone]

30. It's a good magazine, but my story didn't have anything to do with

techniques, as such. In case you're interested, I just found a stray copu on my hard drive, and will past it below, without the formatting that the finished product had.

Thanks for making me think of this. Hope you enjoy reading it.

Redstone

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Inheritance

When the phone call came telling me that my father had died, I was just putting the finishing touches on a letter to him. One of the photographs I was enclosing was of his old table saw, a Craftsman of about 1950 vintage. It hadn’t been used in ten years or so when I got it from my brother. He thought I was crazy to lug it home, telling me that it didn't work and couldn't be fixed. But after about fifty hours of patient examination, cleaning, adjusting, and rewiring, I cranked it up and it cut its first pine board in a long time like a hot knife through butter.

In small-town Vermont, where I grew up in the 1950s and early 1960s, woodworking was one of those guy things (with apologies to all female readers; that’s just the way it was). The men of the family were expected to be able to fix cars, catch fish, shoot animals, and make things out of wood. It wasn’t necessary to be a master cabinetmaker, but when it came time to replace a porch step, you didn’t pay someone else to do the job.

Besides the societal imperative, woodworking was supposed to run in our family. My grandfather was widely acknowledged as one of the best around. He worked almost entirely by hand, with tools generally dating from the early 1900s. It wasn’t that he didn’t like power tools; I think he just liked to enjoy each project as long as possible. And what projects they were–he had a habit of just showing up at one of the relatives’ houses with his latest work (he gave away everything he made), and it was always something the recipient would scramble to make room for. His last and best effort was to make grandfather clocks for all his children and married grandchildren. These he made not from kits or even patterns, but by scaling some photographs he had seen in a furniture catalogue.

My father was more utilitarian. He cranked out the usual plywood bookshelves, storage cabinets, and toolboxes for the back of the station wagon. But he made these well enough that many of them are still around our various houses and doing their jobs, and he was thought of around town as being in the "pretty good carpenter" class.

And there was the shed. I still see it every time I smell sawdust. He worked in a cavernous two-level shed with a loft that was attached to the back of the house. There resided that table saw and all the other mysterious and dangerous tools. Like all kids, I wasn’t allowed to touch any of the good stuff, but if I nagged enough I would get a hammer, some nails, and some scrap wood to whack together into a vague approximation of a boat. That ended up being the extent of my childhood woodworking education, probably because I never asked to learn more. I just wasn’t very interested.

I got interested real fast, though, when I got divorced and moved into an empty house with an empty bank account. I knew that I would eventually need more in the way of furniture than what I had, which consisted entirely of a rolltop desk and a set of bookshelves. The choice seemed pretty clear: Head over to Goodwill, or buy some wood and basic tools for about the same amount of money, and hope that my genealogy and a few library books would provide the rest.

Well, I don’t know if it was genetics or necessity that did it, but I now have an entire houseful of furniture that I made myself. As I look at each piece chronologically, I can see the improvement in skill, design, and technique. Coming late to woodworking doesn’t mean you can’t learn fast. And, of course, each new project provided a handy excuse to buy a new tool and learn how to use it. And there are still a few spaces in the house that I can make things to fill. I'm even thinking about making a new sofa if I can learn how to do the upholstery, and of course that will mean a trip to the tool store...

But I won’t be buying a new table saw. This one is old, but it works just fine. I kept asking my father to come to the house so he could see my furniture, and how I had fixed up his saw to as good as new, but he never made it. He probably figured he’d have time to do it later, like we all do.

I wish he had, though. We all still have a child within us, and no matter how old we get, that child will always want to say what I said so long ago, holding up that ridiculous boat made of pine scraps and nails:

"Hey, Dad, look what I made!"
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©1992, C. Goff. All rights reserved.

[Mikimouse]

31. Very cool article...your Dad would have been very proud...

I love Vermont, and have camped up on the Cancamagus Highway many times. The only scary part of Vermont was the endless drive from the Mass. border to Bennington.

[leftofthedial]

9. congratulations!

[Mikimouse]

13. Thank you very much Lotd...I'm delirious

:crazy:

[leftofthedial]

16. what an accomplishment

I hope you have big plans to celebrate!

[Mikimouse]

18. I just did, I went out and got some wonderful egg foo yong...

The cats are asleep on the couch and I have some relative peace and quiet for a little while. I did call my Dad and tell him though.

[leftofthedial]

23. I bet your Dad's proud

as he can be.

[Mikimouse]

25. It is a funny thing...he was a researcher as well, but in a far different

discipline. He was in Forestry back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. He published quite a bit, but to his lament, never his original thoughts. He was alwasy skeptical of my chosen discipline, especially because he couldn't understand why anyone in their right mind (I have rarely been accused of that particular characteristic) would leave a very highly paid profession to enter one in which one does not make money. I would rather just make ends meet and be happy than be wealthy and miserable.

[Ellen Forradalom]

10. Gratulálok!

Nagyon jó hír az!

[Mikimouse]

15. Nagyon szepen koszonom kedves baratom..

A volt felesegem (a masodik) alandoan mondta neken hogy milyen marha vagyok. Ez kelet nekem, plane most amikor probalok egy valodi alast talalni.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

12. CONGRATS!!

[Mikimouse]

17. Thank you for the congrats! I am very grateful...

:hippie:

[salin]

21. Woo Hoo!

Many congratulations!

[Mikimouse]

27. Many thanks!

B-)

[u4ic]

22. Wow! Congratulations, Mikimouse!!

:toast:

[Mikimouse]

28. Thank you very kindly...been a long time coming...

and it will look really good when I ask to be reviewed for the tenure-track job I am trying to get.

[u4ic]

29. Good luck to you!!

:hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

32. If anyone deserves great things happening in their life it is you

Congratulations on realizing your dreams. Glad you made it through the worry and the stress to get to the other side. Is it the one we discussed? Hope so. Can't wait to see it in print.

[Mikimouse]

33. Hi there! Thank you very much...it is the article on the Alaska Natives

that I started writing about 3 years ago. It will be published through the California State University in Fresno, should be the February issue. Your kind words mean a great deal to me, thanks. Hey, PM me and bring me up to date on your Mom if you get a chance.:hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

34. Done :)

[emmajane67]

35. Congrats!!!

I remember that feeling...
And it's even sweeter when someone's told you you can't do it. Immature I know but hey, who cares, YOU GOT PUBLISHED!

[Mikimouse]

36. Not immature at alll. She almost succeeded in convincing me ...

that I really was a moron. Thank goodness she left three years ago and will not be back.

[TheProphetess]

37. Many congratulations!

What a great accomplishment! I've had a couple of articles published but the first one that had me as the first author was the best feeling ever!
Good for you! :toast:

[Mikimouse]

38. Many thanks, this is my first in a new endeavor...

Now, all I have to do is convince the university to hire me permanently.:hippie: