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This has been one of those days where I keep having to stop and deconstruct my emotions. In a meeting, I’ll find myself angry and defensive, only to find, when I try to put into words what I’m feeling, that there is no there there, that what ever I’m feeling has sprung into being independent [...]

Ok, if I’m going to be posting every day in October, I need some built-in multitasker slacker time. So: a new Wednesday tradition, in which I post a sample passage from the reading I’ve foisted on my poor students for today’s class:
(From Basic Teachings of the Buddha: A New Translation and Compilation, with a [...]

My friend Tricia was the first of my college-friends-who-I’m-still-in-touch-with to have a baby (with my former pseudo arch-nemesis Cait coming in at a close second). It’s not too surprising, then, that her daughter Georgia has lodged herself fairly deeply inside my subconscious.
Since Georgia was born last December, she’s been the star of a series [...]

Oh, I am just not good* at being busy. This semester I’m working full time in addition to teaching a class — that’s 43 hours out of the week that I have to be someplace and be working, never mind the unstructured class prep hours I need to work on top of that.
Now, technically, [...]

In an effort to a.) write more and b.) write more here, I’m participating in Get it Down, Trixie’s write-every-day challenge for October. Not only is it an excuse to write every day*, it’s also a way to celebrate Down’s Syndrome Awareness Month (don’t tell me you already had plans). Join us!
*I had a writing [...]