25 October 2008

Neither Stranger Nor Native in the Nail Salon

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These days, when I get my hair or nails done, or see women with toddlers or babies, I recall--oddly enough--an experience Jacobo Timerman de...
24 October 2008

A Walk Through the Village

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The morning started off cold and breezy: a harbinger of winter. But it rather quickly turned into one of those fall days that, while not qui...
22 October 2008

Not Excellent and Fair, but Pretty and Pretty Damned Good

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Shakespeare may not have called this day "excellent and fair." But it was pretty and pretty damned good in its own way. Not the le...
20 October 2008

Work

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Last Wednesday, I stayed up all night and was all but useless after my morning classes on Thursday. So what am I doing tonight? Pulling anot...
19 October 2008

Younger than Before

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When I was younger, younger than before I never saw the truth hanging from the door And now I'm older see it face to face And now I'...
18 October 2008

Leaving a Movie for the Imagination

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Tonight Dominick and I went to a movie. We lasted through the first twenty minutes or so of Quarantine , a remake of a movie I've never...
17 October 2008

Change, Then and Now

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During the year before I started living full-time as a woman, I had a lot of thoughts about, and flashbacks to, very early in my childhood. ...
15 October 2008

An E-Mail and a Warp In Time

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An e-mail made my day today, even though its tone was sad and rather anxious. Sajidur, who took three classes with me, graduated last year. ...
13 October 2008

From Denials to Uniting

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Today I got to spend some time with Dominick, finally. I don't think we've been together since the school year started. So a season ...
12 October 2008

Lost?

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So today's the "real" Columbus Day. It means, what, that we're celebrating some guy who got lost on his way to India from ...
11 October 2008

The World Didn't End Today

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Late this afternoon, I went out to shop. Not a single cloud hovered in the sky; the breeze flickered the ends of my hair ever so slightly. S...
10 October 2008

A Friendship Between a Man and a Woman

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Today Bruce and I went to a Thai restaurant near his office in Soho for lunch. We often meet on Fridays for lunch, and we'd been to that...
08 October 2008

Nine Months

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Last night I fell asleep in my chair while watching the Presidential debates. That's my excuse for not writing yesterday. I also fell as...
06 October 2008

What the Guys Try

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Another day, another class, another meeting. All right, it doesn't have quite the ring of "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow....
05 October 2008

Denials from Their Child and Grandchild

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Today a sadness set in. I was working on my bike, which can get me meditative sometimes. (As if I need to be more meditative!) It rained las...
04 October 2008

A Prism of Time

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A few weeks ago I signed onto a website called classmates.com. On it are pages for high schools, colleges and other institutions (prisons? m...
03 October 2008

Losing the old game

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Today I was dragged into something kicking and screaming. And I came out, well, on a kick. I don't have classes on Friday, so I wouldn...