Mar
30
2011
“Here’s to you, doctor.” That’s what I heard on my radio as I drove home from work yesterday. Oh, shut up about doctors, I yelled at the speakers. But they didn’t listen. You wouldn’t believe what the syrup-voiced woman said next. “You fix broken bones. You mend broken hearts.” I shrieked. There is no doubt [...]
Mar
06
2011
They say you can’t lose something you never had, but that’s not true. You can, and part of yourself along with it. One of my students wore a t-shirt that said, I was a rebel in the 00s. Yesterday my landlady had a (one-sided) conversation with her dog: Do you want to go out? Do [...]
Feb
26
2011
I’ve been looking around the Internet for cool stuff for my U.S. Society & Culture class. Thinking of Teejie, I downloaded this wonderful photo: And thinking of Banana, I grabbed this beauty, an old one of Gee’s Bend: Let’s come back to the present, a skill I lack, spending most of my time on either [...]