25 January 2010

Is Prometheus What Pandora Would Have Been Had She Been A Man?

›
Last night the drizzle turned into rain. It became a torrent that raged, with the stiff winds, against my windows. At least I didn't h...
24 January 2010

Sunday Mist And Drizzle

›
When does a mist become a drizzle? When you go outside. At least, that's how it seemed today. No mist is finer than the one you see thro...
23 January 2010

A Familiar Shore In A New Life

›
Probably no cinematic scene is more emblazoned in my consciousness than the one that ends Le Quatre Cents Coups , a.k.a. The 400 Blows. Ant...
22 January 2010

Sleep And Body Heat

›
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

›
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

›
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...
5 comments:
18 January 2010

A Bike Ride Into Change

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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...