We’re off! We’re out! Whatever way you say it, the truth is this: We’re On Spring Break! I am So Happy. I have a million things I’d like to do with the next six days (plus two weekends) off of school. Already I’ve cleaned out my car– something I’ve been wanting to do since, um, […]
Read moremade to the quote at the end of the post titled “What I Have To Do.” Just in case you’re interested.
Read moreE-mail is a good thing. I really like it. It’s so much more casual than a phone call, so much less obligatory than a lunch-date. It’s a simple, quick way to keep in touch with people. But it has a horrible way of backing up on me. Perhaps you know what I mean? Perhaps you, […]
Read moreAt long last, I have gone back to some old posts to add pictures to the text. If you are interested, please look at the posts entitled Marafiki and Musmark for pictures that correspond to the story. And yes, if you can’t tell already from their titles, both posts are about our time in Kenya. […]
Read moreWhen I knew, at the beginning of this day, that my afternoon would close with a visit to an internet cafe, I thought I would be able to write of this day’s activities. Alas, that is not the case. I and four others from our team spent the day in Kochogoro, a slum of such […]
Read moreI am delighted to interrupt my cleaning-my-classroom-evaluating-curriculum-orderingtext-books-for-next-year-meeting-with-my-professor-and-program-director-at-Duke-doing-laundry-and-doing-laundry-and-doing-laundry-packing-and-packing-and-packing to welcome a new blog to the world. Yes, I am pleased to introduce you to Imparting Grace, Richella’s blog. Not yet a week old, the blog promises to be an outlet for Richella’s rich wisdom, wisdom that my friend Rachel and many other young women enjoy at […]
Read moreI’m taking a time-out here to give a hearty welcome to the phatted calf who has, it seems, entered the world of blogging. Which isn’t to say that he hasn’t been in this world for Some Time. I know he reads blogs; he has been known to read– and even comment on– this blog from […]
Read moreMy husband’s blog, which he started for work six weeks ago (and which is, incidentally, brilliant– or, if not brilliant, then witty, thought-provoking, and clever) is ranked the 466,000th Most Popular Blog On Earth. Out of 71 million blogs. This information comes to us courtesy of Technorati, a company that evaluates these kinds of things, […]
Read moreSo you thought you were going to get another post out of me, did you? Fat Chance. Do you think– do you honestly think– that after I stayed up Too Late to write my pierced ears saga and, in thanks, got Entirely Too Little sleep and Absolutely No Comments, I would write you, O Reader, […]
Read moreI’ve always hated it. I guess that hatred is part of the more melancholy side of my personality: change marks history. What is former is forever and permanently relegated to the past and, unless the change is Needed, and Anticipated, and Good (like, say, having your baby finally sleep through the night), that which is […]
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