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Category Archives: Etc.
Make Art, Not Resolutions
You can’t be successful at everything. You simply can’t. Every success has its corresponding loss. That’s Alain de Botton, in a breakneck-speed examination of success and failure, over at TED talks. He’s looking at the nuances of success in the … Continue reading
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To teach, or not to teach?
For several months now, I’ve been reflecting on being teacher. My essay on my first teaching job was recently published in the web anthology In Her Place. “Islands” is about my experience working as a high school language assistant in … Continue reading
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Tagged poetry, poets and work, teacher, teaching, writers who teach, writing, writing and work
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My favorite ways to stretch a dollar
It’s getting colder and most of the trees are now bare on our street. The darkening days have us stocking the larder, battening down the hatches, mending stockings, etc etc. This is good weather to share some of the enjoyable … Continue reading
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What would Whitman do?
It is a beautiful fall day, on the cusp of winter, and I have much to be grateful for. Love. Food and shelter and warmth. Resources, health. Poetry. You can see the cold hanging in the air this morning, and … Continue reading
Three Things (I love)
Taking inspiration from someone I love, I put together a little list of good things cooking right now in the big chili pot that is my life. 1) Truckee, California. The light at high summer, the smell of the forest … Continue reading
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to the source: solstice reflections
The longest day of the year is like reaching the top of a really giant slide– one we’ve been climbing for what seems like forever. As I write this, there’s one more hour left to hang out at the peak … Continue reading
A Measure of Spring
These past few weeks, spring has been wringing out its last notes, with summer making big, blowsy strides into the middle of entire afternoons. I look around and see so many grateful, joyful faces. I can see the joy in … Continue reading
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A Wedge and Three Lists
Ogden Nash writes: It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important, And … Continue reading
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Reading and Writing about Reading and Writing
I’ve checked out for a few weeks to begin graduate work in the low-residency MFA program at Seattle Pacific University. I spent a fantastic ten days on Whidbey Island off of Seattle, attending lectures in craft and talks on the … Continue reading
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