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Just the meat and the bread. Just another WordPress.com weblog. And miles to go before I sleep. July 31, 2010. Things That Have Happened So Far This Morning:. 1 Miraculously did wake up to alarm, despite sleep deprivation. 2 Discovered that alarm had been set (by me) one hour late. Result: bus to NH (to get picked up by Kim Roseberry long gone. 3 Next plan: 10 am bus to Concord. Brightside: The bus at 8 am takes two hours, but the 10 am bus is only one hour! 13 Arrive at bus station, just in time. A I re...
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Just the meat and the bread. Just another WordPress.com weblog. Amtrak, I love thee. In the company of books. August 7, 2007. My pal over at Bottom Shelf Books. Did a bang-up interview over there. Definitely worth a read. Responses to “please recognize”. Feed for this Entry. The text the romance back review. May 2, 2013 at 6:58 pm. You’ve made some really good points there. I checked on the internet for more info about the issue and found most people will go along with your views on this site. In the com...
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Bueli | Just the meat and the bread
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Just the meat and the bread. Just another WordPress.com weblog. Una cancion para mi Abuelita. August 24, 2010. Originally uploaded by plainy. My grandmother died this weekend. She was 99 years old, and sharp to the very end. When I last saw her in November, she was drilling me about my classroom and sharing advice and experience from her lengthy teaching career. Bueli was born in 1911 in Allende, Coahuila, and still had memories to share about the Mexican Revolution when the l ocal paper. Enter your emai...
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The Spinster | Just the meat and the bread
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Just the meat and the bread. Just another WordPress.com weblog. State of the Relentless Self Pity. December 12, 2010. Alex: What do smart girls get? Phil: Cats, mostly. That exchange leaped out at me while watching Modern Family (ep. The other day on Hulu. I adore that show, but I don’t love the smart sister/dumb sister routine. Today on my way into the coffee shop I picked up. From the backseat of my car, where it’s been lurking balefully for months. Result? Here are two anecdotes that I loved:. 2 In re...
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Plain.E.Coyote | Just the meat and the bread
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Just the meat and the bread. Just another WordPress.com weblog. April 26, 2011. There are those days, friends, when not even my school-district-injunctions-concerning-online-activity-induced squeamishness can stop me from posting. Today was one of Those Days. I place it between that time last summer when I spent three hours in the rain waiting at a bus stop in Vermont with my pants on backwards, and the time I rode the T unwittingly dressed as a lion tamer. The thought that you can go to TAKS jail remind...
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Una cancion para mi Abuelita | Just the meat and the bread
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Just the meat and the bread. Just another WordPress.com weblog. State of the Relentless Self Pity. Una cancion para mi Abuelita. August 24, 2010. The song is called. Rogaciano the Huapango singer – huapango is a kind of song); but Rogaciano’s name never appears in the song itself. Rather, it’s a lament for his death, and in the song he is called the “. Troubadour) and the “. The line with my student’s name is beautifully consonant:. 8220;La Azucena y La Cecilia lloran lloran sin consuelo”. 8220;El trapic...
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Vanishing Point: Don Draper and the Desert of the “Real Thing” | uncomplicatedly
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Vanishing Point: Don Draper and the Desert of the “Real Thing”. May 19, 2015 at 8:23 pm Posted in no-self. Smile, smile, smile . . . Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. – Jean Baudrillard,. Series finale opened with an unexpected sequence of images: a dry lakebed, a car zooming by, and Don in dusty goggles behind the wheel. “We just. I now believe that Don left the room at McCann not because he. Know someone is individually — person to person,” to invoke the epis...You are c...
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Shirley Jackson’s Unsettling Freedom | uncomplicatedly
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Shirley Jackson’s Unsettling Freedom. June 27, 2014 at 3:37 pm Posted in fiction. In October, I decided on a whim to read Shirley Jackson’s. The Haunting of Hill House. 1959): because it was “in my period” (20th century American), because it was written by a woman, and because it seemed appropriately “Halloweeny.” Since then I’ve been on a minor streak: a few months ago I read. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. 1963), and I’ve just finished. The Haunting of Hill House,. In particular provoked shocks of...
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Revisionist Tragedy: Luhrmann’s Gatsby and the Knight of Faith | uncomplicatedly
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Revisionist Tragedy: Luhrmann’s Gatsby and the Knight of Faith. May 18, 2013 at 11:52 am Posted in fiction. I liked Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. As he climbs hopeful and starry-eyed up the pool ladder, only to be shot in the back and to fall backwards in stunned slow motion. After he’s dead it’s revealed that it was only Nick on the phone, worried about Gatsby. It had been a long time since I’d last read The Great Gatsby. This is nearly the opposite of the scene in the movie — not only does no ...
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The Blank Caught Fire | uncomplicatedly
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The Blank Caught Fire. August 7, 2013 at 11:40 am Posted in personal. I realized this morning that I haven’t yet told this blog about my new online poetry project,. The Blank Caught Fire. It started in April as a National Poetry Month project, and after succeeding at writing 30 poems in 30 days (! I’ve been continuing it at a more leisurely pace. It’s a collage poetry project, where my source material is my partner’s current online writing project,. The Blank Caught Fire. Is based on a single page of.