29 March 2010

Palm Sunday During Wartime

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Yesterday I took a walk "around the block" that turned into an eight-mile trek.  I started out late in the afternoon, knowing that...
27 March 2010

Wind In The Beginning of Spring

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Last Saturday was balmy: I was riding in shorts and a T-shirt. Today I didn't go riding, even though the sky was clear. When I went o...
26 March 2010

A New Girl In Town

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Tonight, as I was walking from the bus stop to my apartment, I heard someone call my name. She was a young trans woman whom I met, by chance...
25 March 2010

On The Right: Wishing You Weren't There

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One of the courses I teach is Writing for Business. The majority (though not all) of the students in the course are business or accounting m...
24 March 2010

After The Trauma

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Today I taught two sections of the intro to literature classes. They are normally different, as the earlier class has more mature, or at le...
23 March 2010

The Trauma of The Beginning of Spring

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Today everybody looked tired. I thought I might've been projecting, but a few co-workers told me, without my asking or prompting, that t...
22 March 2010

Spring Has Arrived: Waiting for Spring Break

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Another week back at the college. That, after a picture-perfect weekend. I hope next week is something like this weekend was. Whatever th...
21 March 2010

Back to Normal: Change

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You might say that I'm feeling that life is returning to normal. As if it ever was! Yes, that ride yesterday kicked my keyster (sp?). ...
20 March 2010

A Journey Through Change: It Remains The Same

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Today I took the longest ride I've taken since my surgery. I pedalled about 40 miles and more or less reprised a ride I did once just b...
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19 March 2010

The Day Before, Again

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Tomorrow is the first day of spring, at least officially. But the past couple of days have felt as if we were weeks into that season, and t...
18 March 2010

Another Day After

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Today the weather was even nicer than it was yesterday. But I didn't ride my bike to work. I had a very early class. That wouldn'...
17 March 2010

Cycling to Work for The First Time In My (Current) Life

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Today I rode my bike to and from work for the first time since June. The day could hardly have been better, at least for this time of year:...
16 March 2010

Easter's Coming And I Can Use A Resurrection of My Own

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Regina called a little while ago. I haven't seen her since the summer and haven't talked to her in a few months. We made plans to ...
14 March 2010

Recovering From An Earlier Season

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Heavy rain continued to fall this morning, but it had tapered off to a drizzle by the middle of the afternoon. I went out for a walk; I actu...
13 March 2010

Another Tempest (a Nor'easter, actually)

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What a wild season this is! Here in New York, we have had hurricane-force winds and, according to the most recent measurement in Central Pa...
12 March 2010

Clarity After The Tempest

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Last night, after work, I went to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to see a production of The Tempest by Shakespeare. It turned out to be ex...
10 March 2010

Lesbians In My Future?

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Today Doreen, an advocacy coordinator for SAGE, asked me whether I could spend a day or two in Washington, DC. I would be meeting with other...
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09 March 2010

Without Sleep, Perchance to Dream

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Just another eleven hour day on four hours' sleep. Nothing new here. All right, I'm being dramatic. But I feel that no matter what...
08 March 2010

Still More To Come?

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So...after a weekend in which current and former love figured, it was back to reality. And I'm not talking about the TV shows that, in s...
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07 March 2010

Lost With Memory

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Today I did about two hours of bike riding. I made a couple of stops along the way, including one at a park in Red Hook , Brooklyn. En route...