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Monthly Archives: March 2005

If you have the time, read the first two articles from the March 24th edition of The New York Review of Books: Very Bad News and Welcome to Doomsday. In Very Bad News, Clifford Geertz reviews two books : Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond and Catastrophe: Risk and Response […]

If you have the time, read the first two articles from the March 24th edition of The New York Review of Books: Very Bad News and Welcome to Doomsday. In Very Bad News, Clifford Geertz reviews two books : Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond and Catastrophe: Risk and Response […]

ì ‘Sugar.’ You like that, donít you?í ìYou mean Jeff and Karen?î ìHey, Sugar.î ìItís a southern thing, isnít it?î ìI guess so.î ìWe say, ‘hon.’ Maybe they think hon is quaint.î ìWe do say that, donít we?î ìOften. You use it all the time.î ìExcept when I say it, Iím thinking h-u-n.î Dinner at […]

View image Matthew brought Sarah and we had a most unusual MFA experience. The Ralph Lauren Collection of Cars. Cars? Not art? Audio players with Ralph describing at what age he fell in love with which car? ìDad, heís a jackass.î Donít misinterpret, weíre glad we went, but Iím convinced it set the mood for […]

View image Matthew brought Sarah and we had a most unusual MFA experience. The Ralph Lauren Collection of Cars. Cars? Not art? Audio players with Ralph describing at what age he fell in love with which car? ìDad, heís a jackass.î Donít misinterpret, weíre glad we went, but Iím convinced it set the mood for […]

My last day with Teresa. ìHow is your coffee? Warm enough?î She asked. ìItís perfect coming from a microwave.î ìI heated it for forty-three seconds.î ìDid you call Walter this morning at seven?î ìI did. But yesterday, or was it Monday…I walked the dog again and he called at 7:03 wondering if I had fallen […]

Jennifer I tend to have nightmares about school especially in the week before school starts in the fall, a day or two before every vacation ends, and on long weekends. This is from before the end of our last vacation. I was in my classroom (which was a lecture-hall), and I didnít have much for […]