02 November 2010

Election Day

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Well, the election results are coming in.  None of them are surprising.  While people are unhappy with what's going on in this country a...
01 November 2010

The Elections: I Have No Expectations

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Tomorrow's Election Day. It seems that actual and would-be voters can be more or less divided into the following categories: the ...
31 October 2010

Halloween: Not In Costume

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Happy Halloween! It's odd for me to say that.  Halloween doesn't seem like one of those holidays on which you wish someone happin...
30 October 2010

Names That Popped Into My Head

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Every once in a while, the name of someone I haven't seen or heard from in a long time will pop into my head.  Time was, not so long ago...
29 October 2010

Not A Good Cultural Fit

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Yesterday I was talking with an adjunct instructor at my main job.  He's a few years older than I am and completed his PhD several years...
28 October 2010

Sick to Busy

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Sick to busy.   Whenever I get sick--which isn't  often--that seems to be the trajectory because I have to catch up on whatever I couldn...
25 October 2010

Critical Lasses In Edmonton

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Now I have to take a trip to Edmonton. No, I'm not going there to take in an Oilers' game.  And, while the idea of biking or hiking...
24 October 2010

Momentoes and Memories

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Last night, my mother told me she'd found a couple of things and was going to send them to me.  But she decided to ask me first.  "...
23 October 2010

Pedalling To A Dream, Twenty Years Later

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The other day I pedalled to and from work--my regular and side jobs.  And during my ride home, I took of my favorite detours. I took th...
20 October 2010

Inadvertent Commemoration

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Today, without thinking, I wore a purple overshirt atop a magenta blouse that coordinated with a like color in the print of the skirt I wore...
18 October 2010

Galloping Against Their Bodies

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What is it about October? I know that it's fall and leaves are dying and, oh, they look so beautiful doing it.  And I'll admit th...
17 October 2010

I Wanna Get Better Already!

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I can't believe I've been home, not working, for a whole week.  Not that my "time off" has been fun and games, or whatever...
16 October 2010

Growing Old As We're Starting To Live

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I've been asked to co-facilitate a transgender forum on aging at a conference for LGBT older adults next month.  I've agreed to do...
15 October 2010

You Never Know Where They'll Find You, Or You'll Find Them

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"Small world!," we exclaimed in unison. "We" being myself and one of my students. As you probably figured out, we ...
14 October 2010

Beryl Burton and Lana Lawless

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I am going to mention  Lana Lawless  and  Beryl Burton  in the same post. Why?, you ask. Well, I just happened to read about both of them t...
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