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Title proper from title frame.;Mode of access: World Wide Web.;Description based upon print version of record.;Front Cover ; Juggling Flaming Chain Saws; Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family; A Volume in Work-Life Balance; Series Editors: Joanne M. Marshall, Iowa State University Jeffrey S. Brooks, Iowa State University George Theoharis, Syracuse University Latish C. Reed, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Bonnie Fusarelli, North Carolina State University Catherine A. ...; CONTENTS; PART I EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS ; CHAPTER 1; Working the Spirit; Narrating Work and Life; Noelle Witherspoon Arnold; Work/Life; About-Tos, Mindfulness, and Spirituality.;Grace and Paying it ForwardPracticing Pleasure and Restorative Treatment; Investment, Living Others Lives, and Avodah; My Balance: Working the Spirit in Work and Life; References; CHAPTER 2; The Journey to Fulfillment; Varied Paths, Same Destination; Lisa Bass; Introduction and Disclaimer; Negotiating singleness as an academic: Footloose and fancy free?; Negotiating opportunity costs, considering the investment; Can we talk? The negotiation between the ideal and the reality; The quest for fulfillment; Fulfillment from "something new": From euphoria to enhanced productivity; Understimulation.;From understimulation to motivationProven coping strategies for overcoming the silence and understimulation; CHAPTER 3; Finding Balance in a Tilted World; Karen Stansberry Beard; The Tilting of our World; WORK, LIFE, AND BALANCE; VALUES IN LIFE AND WORK; TIME, TRAVEL, AND ATTENTION: A BALANCING ACT; 1. I will nurture my spirit and my well-being by eating delicious, nutritious food and exercising daily (even if only to stretch).;2. I will define myself by choosing to free myself from the yoke of projected definitions of me. I will author my own destiny. It is mine, so I am therefore, the author.3. I will appreciate and give thanks for my blessings: my family, children, friendships, work, and a sound mind.; 4. I will handle my money and not allow it be the other way around. I will carefully order it (right side up, by denomination) and keep it in order in my accounts.; 5. I will forgive by choice, and resist offense.; RELATIONSHIPS: LAUGHING AND LOVING IN A NEW SEASON; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 4.;Reflections From the Brink of Tenure ApplicationWorking Through Various Pathways; William R. Black; "I Have a Sneaking Suspicion Your Child Is Not Normal"; Family, Work, and a Search for Bal