Over the past couple months it seems I’ve taken up sleepwalking and sleeptalking. Sometimes I think Yo-Nenny’s gaslighting me with her reports of my nocturnal conversations, yet they ring true. Several nights ago at about midnight, I was sound asleep with Emmy cradled in the crook of my arm. As her mother reached to remove her, apparently I said: “Nooooo. You can’t take her. I was just teaching her the first conditional. She understands it […]
Read moreMonth: October 2011
A Woman Obsessed
I never wanted to think about teaching all the time. But once I began my ESL studies, I couldn’t stop. Like, last summer I went to the Guggenheim and all I could see were English-teaching ideas. Now when I look around my house, I don’t see my treasures; I see teaching ideas. “I wonder how I could incorporate a Pee Wee Herman talking doll into my class.” Unconsciousness doesn’t change things. Eleni’s presence during my […]
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