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good morning! a quick life update. For the past 4 months, I have been teaching in greater quantities than ever before. It's been some parts lovely (yoga!) and some parts stressful (i will practice my grace and abstain from naming names), but overall pretty good, and certainly nice to have a salary that inches closer to a living wage. But on the downside, I haven't been able to publish anything, not since the summer, so my ability to turn thoughts into complete sentences with appropriate punctuation has been limited to The New Yorker Caption Contest Game and high school report cards. So... here I am again, just getting some practice. hopefully I can post life highlights with some regularity.

inspirational

some known, some mind blowing to me -- maybe I'm just in the mood to take life changing advice, or just need a reminder. 27 proves to be a major year...

Bruce Mau : incomplete manifesto for growth.

the battleground

i may never leave again

I'm holed up safely on my old couch in my new living room, with star trek: the next generation on as gentle, nostalgic, safe tv, trying to process and and regain my footing. immediately after finding out some sad news (which came with the advice that I need to be extra careful, a delicate time for the family, extra vigilance required against the world) I looked in my rearview mirror and saw flashing light, *siren*, and was pulled over for talking on the phone while driving. I obediently took my lecture from the cop (who looked suspiciously like the cop who pulled me over on my bike last month) about the "laws". i made it home, well, to the driveway, took careful dark steps onto our porch, and was almost run over by a giant pitbull who had been napping on our doormat. We had a mini faceoff, where he backed off and ran to the yard, and then looked back at me to see just how serious I was about this entering my home thing (and to discern how powerful I was). I could see him calculating, and could feel that he was very close to putting up a fight that he would almost certainly win, so I tried my best to look powerful and very possessive of this home and to get my damn key in the door as fast as possible. I made it, and now have been home alone, trying to allow my emotions to flood through in the way that they need to in response to the news, and to be extra safe and careful...