today in class it was learned by me that the use of passive voice can make certain parts of academic writing appear more objective, abstract, formal, and likely to be accepted by journals for publication ( Read more... )

i remember how to spell the name of my new city by pronouncing it in three syllables ( Read more... )

i'm pretty sure that all 6 other grad students in my program are praying for me at this moment. in the last class i suggested that there MAY be another way to solve the environmental crisis besides movement within the christian church. a professor decided that my suggestion of a post-christian angle on eco-conscious economic reform left him with ( Read more... )

Hannah: I think I just did the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life.
Carrie: I doubt that.
Hannah: I just sent an email to my professor telling her I think she's a lesbian.
Carrie: Oh, wait, maybe you're right.

last week i was teaching the farmcraft program, when we teach kids what it was like on a farm 100 years ago. we went into the summer kitchen to cook corn muffins, with a warm wood fire burning in the stove, and i asked the kids "What does this room smell like to you ( Read more... )

Living in the earth-deposits of our history ( Read more... )

things to do tomorrow:

walk to school
buy butter
be patient with young people
polish hasp collection

a poem for lisa (with vomiting, because she likes to think of vomiting ( Read more... )

on this most beautiful day of the year so far at merry lea, i found a big fat hard round walnut and kicked it all the way home.

my life will now slow down ( Read more... )