Michelle Janning, Ph.D.

Sociologist, Speaker, Design and Research Consultant, Teacher. Observer of Social Life.

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    • Books
      • A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers
      • Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood
      • Love Letters
      • The Stuff of Family Life
      • Sociocultural Dimensions of Childhood
    • Academic Research
    • Current Project: Family Vacation Homes
    • General Interest Writing
  • Human-Centered Design and Consulting
  • Teaching
    • Sociology in Strange Times Mini-Lectures
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  • Between Pinterest and Pinterest Fail

    This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! When Aaron was little I took him to a parent-toddler class where, two mornings a week, we moms (yep, all moms) watched our kids play with high quality wooden blocks, hovered, told them to use…

    Michelle Janning

    April 30, 2013
    Uncategorized
    baking, Motherhood, Pinterest, stay at home moms
  • Between Life and Death

    This and dozens of other essays are compiled in the book Between: Living Live in Neither Extreme. Check it out! My dad died in 2005. But don’t worry…this isn’t a depressing post. Dad had lung cancer (insert judgment-preventing disclaimer here…he was not a smoker). It was a two-year experience. Not battle, experience. Because he had…

    Michelle Janning

    April 28, 2013
    Uncategorized
    father and son, German, life and death
  • My blog is all about being “between.”

    My name is Michelle. I am between young and old. Between rural and urban. Between sophisticated and everyday. Between college and community. Between expensive and coupon-cutting. Between mom and career woman. Between smart and intellectually stunted. Between west and midwest (there is no east or south about me). Between cynical and cheery. I love nice clothes…

    Michelle Janning

    April 14, 2013
    Uncategorized
    Between, middle age
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