05 April 2010

A Season Turning, Again

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Tomorrow I go back to work, at the college.  It's been a while since I've read about Einstein's Theory of Relativity.  But I don...
04 April 2010

Easter And New Beginnings

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Today was even more beautiful, and a bit warmer, than yesterday.  I was tempted to go on another bike ride.  However, I am still not at the ...
03 April 2010

Healing In The Mist

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I climbed the arc of the bridge from the Queens "mainland" to the Rockaway Peninsula, a long strip of land wide enough for only t...
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02 April 2010

Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar: More Thoughts About About A Transgender Woman's Murder

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It was utterly gorgeous yesterday: the sort of fine early spring day one envisions during the dreariest winter hours.  So, of course, I went...
31 March 2010

Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar: A Transgender Woman Murdered In Queens

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Yesterday afternoon Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar, a transgender woman whose given name is Edelbuerto,  was found naked and strangled in her rans...
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30 March 2010

Penner Agonistes

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Last night, Gunnar sent me an article  about Mike Penner/Christine Daniels .  I guess it was supposed to be a sort of post-mortem.  As such...
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...