Alone, But Happy

When I proposed to Pater that we could each spend today in our respective cities — rather than take advantage of the day off work for him to travel back here — I felt more…

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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow — term moves along

(Image of Lady Macbeth borrowed fromWest Bay Opera site) Week 10 of a 13-week term, and I feel as if I’ve turned the corner, as I always feel at this point. While I still have…

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Have Johnson, will travel

At the end of another teaching week, I’m exhausted again but this time with a mountain of marking to get through over the weekend — two of my classes wrote in-class essays this week so…

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kick-ass bloggers can’t whine?

Posting has really slowed down around here and I have to admit that I’ve actually contemplated whether or not I should continue with the blog. So I was very grateful when that wonderful blogger and…

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well girl, goodbye . . .

I’ve been beginning my poetry classes by reading the students a poem not on their reading list but rather chosen randomly, even quixotically, by me for sundry reasons. Looking through anthologies in my office this…

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