27 May 2009

On My Way To A Gynecologist

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Well, at least my father seems to be getting help now. As a result, my mother is so much calmer than she was the other day. I don't know...
26 May 2009

Playing Chicken With a Rainstorm

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Today I took another ride up to the George Washington Bridge, then down River Road through Bergen and Hudson counties to the Jersey City wat...
25 May 2009

It Continues On Memorial Day

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Around noon, I went out for a bike ride. How couldn't I?: The day was gorgeous and I was going to a barbeque at Millie's, where I ex...
24 May 2009

Now This

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More family drama. Actually, more of the same family drama. It goes like this: My father is spiralling deeper into depression and indolence,...
23 May 2009

Grunge

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I'm totally convinced that men--most of them, anyway--like sweaty and somewhat grungy women. Why else do they watch me and yell, "H...
22 May 2009

Sheldon Meets Nick's Sister

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Sometimes you just never know who you'll meet. No, it wasn't a celebrity. Or someone I'd been trying to avoid. Well, not really,...
21 May 2009

The End of the Semester; Inevitability

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Well, I'm done for this semester. Now I have a week of appointments with my doctor and oral surgeon, and the commencement before I start...
20 May 2009

Bridges

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Tonight my composition class took their final exam. All composition classes take the same final exam, which faculty members in the departmen...
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...