Category Archives: Opinion

* getting bumped * being cold * being cold and wet at the same time * all inconsiderate acts * mosquitos * the appropriated use of the word “Freak;” as in “freak folk,” or “god bless the freaks,” or “you’re … Continue reading →

There is a frog caught in the wall of my classroom. He ribbetts really loud. So loud that you think he’s in the room, but he’s not. He’s in the wall. Slowly dying. His ribbetts become more plaintive as the … Continue reading →

Well, I am finally feeling better. No more sore throat, no more fever, no more fatalism. It’s weird when you’ve been sick for a while and then you realize that you are better. “Wait a second! There is no pain … Continue reading →

Here is sick sick sicky heading out for the job fair. The phone has not started ringing yet with hot offers. It must be broken, right?

I am sick again. AGAIN!! I AM SICK AGAIN!!!! I. Am. Sick. Again. Do I HAVE an immune system?! Clearly that informational Disney filmstrip about good-guy blood cells battling bad-guy germs with Jiminy Cricket narrating was complete bullshit. Where are … Continue reading →

Ever since I left for Las Vegas, men have been VERY nice to me. Like the man on the airplane who let me disembark in front of him saying, “This way I get to walk behind you! To uh, bug.. … Continue reading →

(It sounded better than “the need to blog”) So, yeah. It turns out that I can’t really take a sabbatical from blogging after all. As soon as I announced my plan to do so, I started getting this immense backlog … Continue reading →

Every time I think about blogging lately the following question has shoved it’s way to the front of my consciousness; “What’s the use?” My blog is by design a personal one, and I think my entries can generally be divided … Continue reading →

My students are writing these nice ‘I am from…’ poems right now. They are so delightful that I thought I’d post one myself. I am from white chalk on sun-bleached boulders, from jackaloupes and marmots, billy goats, and the deepest … Continue reading →

Noah M. took this delightful photograph.