You know what I hate most about owning a home? How all of the sexy stuff like rugs and curtains and rose gardens and pea gravel beds is always and forever interminably on hold while totally unsexy things like baseboards and potholes and refrigerator compressors take priority. (I’m willing to Read more…
the tiredness was a precursor to a crumminess, which has descended upon me like a bowling ball. I don’t feel good. That said, I tried to get a minimum of work done so I wouldn’t fall too far behind. Also, meant to just start “Muzzled” by Gabriela Denise Frank last Read more…
I’m sleepy as hell, y’all so this will be quick. I’m already having some thoughts about my reading lists and I only have one more week to tidy up my university class, so I’ve been doing a lot of teachering in small, unimpressive bits. I’m also starting to get a Read more…
Today, I scrubbed the kitchen floor for a couple of hours, and then the weekend was over. I also (re) read The Big One (especially nightmare inducing now that I live here again). Plus three lyric essays: What Didn’t happen, by Anika Fajardo Dissociation (The Natural Order), by Nicole Walker Read more…
As part of establishing this first “challenge” or more aptly titled “project,” I said I would visit the discussions in my classes every work day, by which I meant Monday through Friday. That doesn’t mean I didn’t work today. I read Jill Christman’s “Paddling the Middle Fork: A Love Story Read more…
I watched I, Tonya tonight and had many feelings. I saw the neighborhoods I lived in and the people I knew in the portrayal. I don’t feel adequate to discuss all my thoughts, but goddamn my heart broke for her when she begged the judge to just send her to Read more…
Today I fell down a couple of internet rabbit holes, on fine recommendations from other essayist/teachers. Today the practice of being a better teacher meant some research was in order. Here is what I found: A good-and-creepy piece of fiction: https://catapult.co/stories/short-story-all-the-ways-he-wont-die An interesting take on how and why to avert disasters: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya Read more…
Today was payday, and since I’m getting new gutters in less than a week, I’m already out of disposable cash until my next check. I’m lucky: all my bills are paid and I was able to buy a couple of house things (including some solar lights for the driveway, which Read more…
Today was such a shitty day at ye olde day job, that I wanted to spend the evening doing nothing but knitting and maybe reading. I didn’t want to log in and check the discussions today. My stressed out bad attitude self tried to tell me that I’d be a Read more…
Today I met a few of my new students in my online writing workshop, and I am already loving the diversity of their experiences and topics. The course is being taught on a new platform, so I’ll be getting used to it as I get to know these writers. It’s Read more…