Five Things Friday

Didn’t that week roll around to Friday quickly? Damn, that was fast! Busy work week, and I’m trying to fight off sinusitis (not officially diagnosed, no antibiotics yet, but drip. drip. drip. Not to mention…

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Time for Gloves: Red Leather and Perfume. . .

This weekend’s stormy weather has pushed us into that week where students balk. They’ve hit the reality of the university classroom, and reading for English class appears to be the first to go, in deference…

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A Little (More) Light Reading . . .

I’m finally beginning to move back into more serious reading, savouring Anne Carson’s Red Doc> a few pages at a time. I’ve Tweeted a few favourite passages of that book for #todayspoem, Vicki Zeigler’sbrilliant Twitter…

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Happy (on) Valentine’s Day

Things that have made me happy lately: Crocuses pushing up cheerily through the leaf mulch . . . if ever there were a declaration of winter changing to spring, this is it! Makes me think…

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Amsterdam Nesting

Hope you won’t mind — I’m posting this at both of my blogs this morning, so there’s the exact postover hereas well. Much as we loved Amsterdam when visiting it last month for the first…

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