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Small lovable rodents make extremely apt anxiety-dream fodder.
Small lovable rodents make extremely apt anxiety-dream fodder. While I was in graduate school, we had gerbils. All my anxieties about whether I could...

I dont remember who showed me the way to this, but thank you. It
I dont remember who showed me the way to this, but thank you. It was a wonderful way to quiet myself after a long and challenging and incredibly mean...

There is the bad work of pride. There is also the bad work of
There is the bad work of pride. There is also the bad work of despair — done poorly out of the failure of hope or vision. Despair is the too-little...

Its all pretty heavy these days. Still trying to wrap my heart
Its all pretty heavy these days. Still trying to wrap my heart around the murder of a local teacher. Now my heart is doubly torn to see the face of ...

When I wake in the morning, weary already because of a late night
When I wake in the morning, weary already because of a late night and an early alarm, I think about the sound of that harvester out there, which was s...

Gratitude List: 1. The wild creative imagination of children.
Gratitude List: 1. The wild creative imagination of children. How one thing suddenly becomes another thing, which morphs into a totally different th...

Gratitude List: 1. All these stories. Perhaps its a little
Gratitude List: 1. All these stories. Perhaps its a little brutal, a little brusque, to ask these young folks whom I dont really know to write essay...

Gratitude List: 1. Personal pep-talks, for that is what this has
Gratitude List: 1. Personal pep-talks, for that is what this has been. It was a short night, and it promises to be a hot day in the classroom, me ye...

Stephanie White, Lisa Dymond, and Susan Mull--thank you for
Stephanie White, Lisa Dymond, and Susan Mull--thank you for tagging me to list the ten books that have been most influential to me. I cheated of cour...

Gratitude List: 1. More feathers. Two days ago, as I was
Gratitude List: 1. More feathers. Two days ago, as I was walking out of school, I was thinking to myself that I hadn’t found a feather yet that da...