Blog series

A.K. Whitney has published several series on her blog. To see each in its entirety, click the links below.

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MATHOCHISM

This series records the joys and horrors of Whitney as a math-phobic journalist who decides to enroll at a community college to see, once and for all, if she really is that bad with numbers. Mathochism is the impetus for Whitney’s upcoming book about math education and numeracy.

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RA DIARIES

This series takes a frank look at Whitney’s ongoing fight with rheumatoid arthritis. Diagnosed while still in elementary school, Whitney has nonetheless managed to live a mostly normal life, getting an education, getting married, even managing to earn a private pilot license, which made Arthritis Today name her a “Hero Among Us” in the mid-’90s.

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THE HIP CHRONICLES

This series records the sometimes harrowing experience of getting a complete hip replacement, from anesthesia to recovery.