19 May 2009

Save Me From Changing

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This is the time in the semester when students want to hand in assignments that were due months ago--and to go over those assignments line-b...
17 May 2009

Presence

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Today I talked with Mom, as I usually do on Sunday mornings. And I talked with Dad--I mean, really talked--as I've begun to do only rec...
16 May 2009

Dreams, Fatigue, Sleep, More Dreams

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I thought the dentist gave me local anaesthesia for my surgery. Here I am, two days later, still feeling tired. Yesterday I slept early in t...
15 May 2009

Lilacs

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Finally...lilacs! They came in late this spring. Perhaps it had to do with the cold weather we had until a couple of weeks ago. Actually, we...
14 May 2009

Oral Problems and Sleep

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Well, there are certainly some things that don't change with one's gender. Today I experienced one of them--namely, something oral. ...
13 May 2009

The End of a Class or the Beginning of a New Stage?

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Today it was good-bye to the Poetics and Rhetoric of Hip-Hop class. I'm really going to miss the students in that one. Some are graduati...
12 May 2009

Goodbyes and First Steps

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Tonight the good-byes are beginning. I have met one of my classes--Writing for Business-- for the last time this semester, and in my current...
10 May 2009

Happy Mother's Day

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Today I experienced something I still haven't gotten used to: people wishing me a happy Mother's Day. I don't know whether I eve...
09 May 2009

Senses and Soloists

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Some of my best days include sense-memories. Today was one of them. This morning, I took my usual trip to the farmer's market on Rooseve...
08 May 2009

This Afternoon I Am Happy

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The rain finally let up this afternoon. The sky didn't clear completely, but enough blue broke up the clouds to fill the streets of SoHo...
07 May 2009

Two More Months: What Next?

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Two more months. Two more months. Two more months. All right. So you're tired of hearing it. I'll say it another way: sixty-one days...
06 May 2009

The First Girls' Night Out

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While at work, I missed a call from someone I haven't talked to in a long time. I'd turned off my cell phone while I was teaching, a...
04 May 2009

Lasts; What Will We See Next Time?

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Some people celebrate "firsts": the first date, the first job, the first apartment and...well, you get the idea. But now I find m...
03 May 2009

No Bike Ride In The Rain; What Women Want

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It rained most of the day today. So I didn't do something I thought I would do for the last time before my surgery: I didn't pedal...
02 May 2009

Dogfights and Dreams

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A dachsund rolled onto her back the way one of my cats would. A French boxer sniffed her belly then stepped over her. A couple of minutes la...
01 May 2009

What Does A Woman Do?

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Getting down to the wire now. It's the first of May. Just the rest of this month and June, and one week in July, until my surgery. It...
30 April 2009

Fatigue, Lunch and Survival

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I can't believe how tired I've been. Yesterday was the first time in weeks I haven't written on this blog. And now here I am, s...
28 April 2009

Time Travel

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Let's see...I began this bright, sunny (and unseasonably warm day) by listening to the Beatles' "Good Day Sunshine" and ...
27 April 2009

Coming Out and Glowing

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It seems that my energy or aura or whatever you want to call it is changing. Four different people--who, as far as I know, don't know ea...
26 April 2009

Changes: To The Ocean, Again

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Iowa may be a lovely state and they now have gay marriage. (Who'da thunk it?) Still, I don't think I could live there: It's way ...