From this morning:
I hand N—– a purple chewable vitamin tablet to accompany his oatmeal.
N: “What animal is it?”
C: “I don’t know. What does it look like?”
N: “No, you’re supposed to guess…”
C: “Oh. A monkey?”
N: “No.”
C: “Is it a dinosaur?”
N: “No. Well, maybe. It’s in the cat family.”
C: “Tiger?”
N: “No.”
C: “A lion?”
N: “Yep!”
Who am I to [...]
Archive for March, 2009
It’s Anybody’s Guess
Posted in Overheard, Personal on 31 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sound and Image
Posted in Poetry on 30 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a sestina, of sorts, that I wrote several years ago … and just re-discovered.
On the last page
of my book there is a tattoo,
a scrawled name lying on its side.
It is most definitely a waste
of space, a whisper
wafting from across
the moors. It tiptoes across
the sweating brow of the self-conscious page
who sits by the [...]
sleep/run/teach/swim, repeat
Posted in Running on 25 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I am grateful that I can bookend my school day with running and swimming. A healthy body is not something to be taken for granted, and neither is time to exercise. Rolling out of bed before 5:30am, or slipping in the pool on the way home from classes– these are not even [...]
Dollhouse
Posted in Movies Music Media, tagged Dollhouse, Hulu, Joss Whedon on 22 March 2009 | 1 Comment »
CH and I have been watching Joss Whedon’s new television series, Dollhouse, this spring. It’s drama about “actives” whose personalities have been wiped, who are imprinted with requested personalities and hired out to the rich … to protect them, fulfill their fantasies, etc.
So far, I’ve been a fan of most of Whedon’s work (specifically [...]
Reflections upon living in a single
Posted in Personal on 22 March 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s now been almost three months that I’ve occupied the little room off the kitchen at Joyous Gard. Three months of falling asleep in an empty room. For many people, this may not seem strange, but for me, this is new. Being near the oldest of six kids, I haven’t had my [...]
La Vida… Nuova? Loca?
Posted in Personal on 18 March 2009 | 1 Comment »
It was with a twinge of shame that I clicked on my blog this evening. It’s been weeks (I think) since I posted and ’twere not for my remarkable Blog-Compatriot, this would be a dead link I fear.
I’m less busy than ever before and I have fewer interactions with people. You’d think it would be [...]
Decimals
Posted in Politics, Teaching on 18 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
This week we’ve been multiplying decimals in fifth grade. This inevitably leads to word problems with sales tax. After struggling through several problems yesterdays I broached the question, “What is sales tax?” I got blank stares, an a a vague answer that it had something to do with buying things. We proceeded to spend the [...]
Reflections
Posted in Literary, Personal, Philosophy and Theology, Running, Teaching on 17 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today, I swam one mile.
Today, in 5/6 grade we discovered the identity of the Disinherited Knight (in Ivanhoe).
Today, I got so engrossed reading “The Silver Tree” (the final book in S. Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series) that I was late to a teachers’ meeting.
Today, I see a part of God revealed in 1 John; [...]
California’s Crisis: The ungovernable state
Posted in Business, Overheard, Politics on 1 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An excellent (and short) article from this week’s Economist regarding California’s budget issues.
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Dressing like Grown-ups: What does it mean when you’re always more dressed up than your professors?
Posted in Aesthetics, Personal, Teaching on 1 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Age is a strange thing. We all know that the gaps created by years and months lessen as we grow older. The nine-months between a new born and their first steps are an eternity. The three and a half years between my younger sister and me were an uncrossable gap at the [...]
