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Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes: Recovering
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Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes. If a story is in you, it has got to come out." - William Faulkner. Friday, February 6, 2015. The first weekend of second semester is one of my favorite weekends of the school year. I don’t have any grading hanging over my head yet, and aside from a small handful of new students who transferred into my classes this week, I know my kids well. This is the time of year when sophomores start to really get. Hope you get better sleep tonight,” Matt said the other morning, und...
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Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes: To let it all just be
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Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes. If a story is in you, it has got to come out." - William Faulkner. Saturday, April 18, 2015. To let it all just be. It’s a Saturday night like so many other Saturday nights. The kids are tucked in. We neglected to have them pick up the family room before we headed out for dinner, so I’m trying to ignore the scattered puzzle pieces, Ninja Turtles, hacky sack, Storm Trooper, and.a few My Little Ponies? At people” is a beautiful, powerful thing. And The Chronology of Water.
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Tone Deaf in Thailand: Leaping to Extremes--Postcards
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Tone Deaf in Thailand. Friday, April 24, 2015. Leaping to Extremes- Postcards. Every year when I go to Hong Kong, I always stay here. It is ugly but it is interesting. But for a claustrophobe, it's a challenging place to stay. I can almost stretch my arms from one side of my room to another. And because I always stay for a month, I usually redecorate. The view often leaves something to be desired. By the end of the thirtieth day, I'm usually awash in nausea. It is Hong Kong- but in the New Territories.
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Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes: March 2015
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Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes. If a story is in you, it has got to come out." - William Faulkner. Saturday, March 21, 2015. Children, so let’s be honest - what are the actual chances? 8221; And then she wants to go home and read. And she’s still doing gymnastics. I honestly can’t see her doing competitive gymnastics ever, really, but you know what? I love that she still enjoys it in her third year, and I love that she will do things on the bars this year that she was too scared to do last year. That s...
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Tone Deaf in Thailand: April 2015
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Tone Deaf in Thailand. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. The Fire This Time. Someday I will learn never to join a Facebook discussion in which anything important is being tossed around. But yesterday was not that day. When I saw this conversation (abbreviated for sanity’s sake), I felt as though another point of view might not go amiss. There were two red flags here, the first being a true canard, as well as a cliché, and the second being “all good things take time.”. 8220;Oh I see- it's not the rise in the cos...
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Tone Deaf in Thailand: August 2015
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Tone Deaf in Thailand. Monday, August 24, 2015. Man on the Bridge. Only once did I ever feel threatened, in broad daylight, when a dog in my neighborhood barked with a note of authority that verged on outright attack and refused to back down when I told him to go. I picked up a rock and we were both stunned when it hit him hard on the flank. He never bothered me again. There were stories in the Bangkok Post. The perception of wealth was as important as wealth itself in Bangkok’s neighborhoods. ...When pe...
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Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes: June 2015
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Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes. If a story is in you, it has got to come out." - William Faulkner. Thursday, June 25, 2015. I just miss her. 8220;Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”. 8213; Roger A. Caras. Except that she wasn’t there. She’s not here. I cannot get used to this. It’s been 48 hours now. Two days. For two days, I have been someone who does not have a dog. I don’t know how to be this person. She slept all the time. She’s always loved to sleep, but really - all. And I th...
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Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes: Where I am and where I’ve been
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Prairie Tides and Ocean Eyes. If a story is in you, it has got to come out." - William Faulkner. Friday, July 17, 2015. Where I am and where I’ve been. Sometimes summer days are like this: without a clear agenda, my anxiety begins to simmer sometime around mid-morning. I’ve had a few cups of coffee, which is as necessary as air but also doesn’t exactly soothe me, and then the children are screaming at each other. 8220;Zannah, give it back! Oh, I try. This morning before we did anything fun. These people ...
