22 January 2010

Sleep And Body Heat

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Last night I fell asleep while reading a student's paper. That should not be taken as an assessment of the student's work: I prob...
20 January 2010

When I Started To Learn What Is Mine

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Tonight I got to see Dwayne again. Even though I saw him about two weeks ago, it felt like a reunion all over again. He says that I am a d...
19 January 2010

Mine: Becoming Mine

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Neither the students nor I can believe that the winter session is almost over: just two more days of classes. This means, of course, that th...
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18 January 2010

A Bike Ride Into Change

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I just had to get out of the house and on my bike, even if only for a little bit. And even if I still had a heavy cold. Today I pedaled som...
17 January 2010

Giving Birth To New Definitions Of Ourselves

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When I began my current life, I had assumed that there were two things I would never have: XX chromosomes and a uterus. Somehow I had the fe...
16 January 2010

Resisting a Temptation to Revise

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Dina, who teaches at the college, told me about a vacancy that was recently listed at a college in which I used to teach. The job is, in so...
15 January 2010

Through My Skin

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For the past few days, I've had a rather heavy cold. That, of course, has left me tired, which is one reason why I didn't post yest...
13 January 2010

Aftershocks

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If you had been in New York on one of the Sundays just after 9.11.01, you might've felt a sense of deja vu if you were at the college to...
12 January 2010

Some Thoughts on Amanda Simpson's Appointment

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You don't have to be a rocket scientist to be true to yourself. But it can't hurt. Or can it? That might be the underlying message...
11 January 2010

In Front Of The Wife

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On my way home from work, I stopped in the Duane-Reade store near the Jamaica Terminal of the Long Island Rail Road. (Yes, they spell Rail...
10 January 2010

Plenty of Fluids

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I'm a bit under the weather. Actually, I have been for a couple of days. I've had a cold that, I hope, won't turn into somethi...
09 January 2010

On Same-Sex Marriage And New Jersey

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While I was enjoying my time with Dwayne the other day, something that disturbed him, me and many other people we know was happening on the ...