I’m a Magpie
I don’t work on Fridays. I don’t have school, and I sit around the house and think of all the work I need to be doing… lecture notes for Wednesday, line-edits for workshop this Sunday, reading for my Keats class on Monday. Plus housework, and writing, and I should be going to the gym, too, [...]
There’s a ring around the moon tonight, which always makes me a bit morbid and over-dramatic. I blame childhood exposure to poetry. It seeps into your bones at that age.
“WRECK OF THE HESPERUS” By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
It was the schooner Hesperus, [...]
I mean, November’s nice and all, with the Thankgiving and the pies and the harvest and stuff, but I’m really not digging it this year. I know, I know: we’re just one day in. But that one day? It has been sucky.
It all started last night. The jelly beans my co-worker generously shared got me [...]
The cat is sleeping on my lap. Which is to say the bulk of him is on my lap — I’d say that approximately 60% of the cat is currently above my pelvic region. His head is nestled in a pile of papers stacked next to me on the couch, his front legs twitching languidly [...]
I'm a freelance writer and perpetual graduate student living in San Francisco. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset reflected in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and started library school in the fall of 2009.