one thing that happened in the intervening silence of this blog was that my grandmother (my father’s mother) died suddenly at the beginning of April. it was unexpected in that there was no long decline, no hospitalizations immediately before. she simply died in her sleep, which, as my father pointed out to me, was exactly […]
i really like teaching teenagers. teenage girls, especially. i first had this experience at Tyler (when i was barely out of my teens myself) when i taught the Weekend Workshop class, a Sunday morning (yes, Sunday morning) pre-college type class where i taught ceramics to a small group of somnolent teenagers. in between chasing them […]
how do i say this without sounding insufferable?
i kind of hate Nantucket.
i have been in an unbelievable funk since i got here. i have tried to logic my brain out of this depression, which works most of the time these days, thanks to a well-worn and hard-won mental pathway that i can force myself down […]