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Qu’est-ce que c’est?

For a long time, I thought of myself as a very outgoing introvert. I always did well at parties; if nothing else, I could pick out the other weirdo in the group and find some common ground, even if that common ground was grousing about the other people at the party. As much as I [...]
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S/PCHP

As we grow up there are certain tasks that we must face, no matter how unpleasant they may seem. With the privilege of being a mature and independent human being, there comes responsibility, to ourselves, our world, and our families. Some we take on willingly and happily; others we take on with the grudging acceptance [...]
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Driving in the Dark

Teaching has been a little bumpy lately. For the past few weeks, I have been feeling simultaneously like I absolutely must teach more, and, in the hours before a class, like I absolutely can not teach at all. I usually have an idea of what I am going to teach a week at a time, and [...]
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Narcissism

Blogging, at least in the way that I do it, is narcissistic. It is shocking to me that anyone would actually want to read about my clothes and my shoes and, oh yeah, my occasionally mindblowing moments of connectedness with all that is, and love for the world so powerful that it leaves me thunderstruck, [...]
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Good Evening, Ladies and Germs.

A conversation about the empty water filter pitcher in the fridge: Me (staring blankly into the refrigerator): I wanted cold water. Scott: Use some water from one of my bottles in there. Me: They have your germs on them. Scott: Uh, we were just making out. Me: That’s different. Those are making out germs. Scott: Alright. I won’t refrigerate my mouth, [...]
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Food for Thought

Just after we started dessert, it occurred to me that if I were a real blogger, I would have been taking pictures of the meal to post here. Dinner at Horizons in Philly isn’t quite like dinner anywhere else. Many of the patrons aren’t vegetarian, much less vegan, so the fact that this vegan restaurant [...]
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Less Lessness

I started blogging five and a half years ago with the intention of my blog never being anything other than private. It was just a more organized way of keeping a journal, for my own delight and amusement. When I did go public two years ago, it was with a commitment to keep my blog [...]
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Intellectual Maturity

It has been said that the mark of intellectual maturity is being able to hold conflicting views simultaneously. Flash class started last week, and on the first day the instructor -let’s call him Helmut- was somewhat worked up over having shared a computer with a student who had the flu. He talked about the syllabus a [...]
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Harry Potter and the Big Fat No

Whop. I decided to lift my fiction embargo for the week we’re at the beach. At the strong yet subtle urging of the universe, I also decided that Harry Potter would be among my beach reading selections, along with a few books by Yasunari Kawabata, and maybe a yoga thing or two. I went to Borders [...]
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Brave and crazy, in a nutshell.

There was a big long post from yesterday that I decided to make private, but in a nutshell: It was  suggested that I am brave for admitting to being lonely. In a culture that provides almost constant access to bits and  pieces of other people’s lives -their milestones, daily aggravations, and even journals- and offers others [...]
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