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So, it’s kind of hard to tell how it went.
I guess I won’t know until the class gels (normalizes, to use a Montessori term) a little bit. However, I have to remember that academics is not uppermost in some of their minds. There’s a mentally ill...
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Girl (sleep) interrupted
I’m mentally toasted today. Kid has gone from being a “go to bed at 9, get up at 7″ kind of a child to getting up about every fifteen to thirty minutes to tell me that she can’t sleep and could I...
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What’s not witches is pirates…
I’m at an odd stage in my research and teaching life. Instead of doing a lot of quotidian things to pay the academic rent in hopes of being able to do a little cool research now and then, I’m actually...
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Quit piddling and write your book.
Baby steps, y’all. Today, I’m rereading the mss with the goal of enjoying what’s good about it. It’s been long enough since I wrote it that I’m kind of surprised that it came out of my brain and I...
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Is it avoiding? Or is it something else?
I decided to get out that copy of Stephen Aron’s American Confluence that I purchased five years ago and just couldn’t bear to read for reasons that seem stupid now. (Praised highly by one...
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So, my thoughts on Aron
What was helpful to me: 1) His frank embrace of landscape and bioregion as an appropriate unit of analysis. I work between rivers as well, so figuring out exactly what to call this place in a way that...
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Well, so that happened.
This break in the action brought to you by community fundraising, some volunteer stuff, and getting my learner’s permit so that I can get my drivers’ license again. But now I’m back on task.
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Canola oil is bad, bad, bad.
Ok, so maybe it’s not bad for everyone, but it sure as hell is bad for me. John was trying to be all heart-conscious and bought a massive bottle of canola oil, which we used last night to make fried...
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Let a thousand flowers bloom (but only in the shade).
Wrote some, then went and planted a lot of impatiens. My backyard is dominated by a giant tree. As J points out, that means that it’s cool and protected from frosts, but…I cannot have poppies. Or...
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Lilac trees
I am blessed with lilac trees. Every year, I cut down a ton and every year, they come back again. Death, taxes, and lilacs…the sure things in my life. All my flowers are in now (first wave) and I...
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