I see that people have no excuse now to leave their blogs dormant: You can even post from your phone, unless you have a dumb phone like mine. And, my oh my, one doesn't have to struggle for a topic, either, because creating an insta-poll will allow your friends and readers to do the thinking ( Read more... )

My first sleep in for a long while since I am staying in a cottage in Pacific Grove rather than my downtown neighborhood has morphed into a writing session with my travel mug filled from the front desk offering loosely called "complimentary Continental breakfast." What? No Earl Grey? But I don't want to go out in the wet morning fog to seek ( Read more... )

Well living with oneself does press the point about who's to blame for dissatisfaction. I was riding my exercycle this evening, rocking out to salsa tunes on the iPod and enjoying the cold air blowing in the window. I kept thinking about the slim, athletic figure I enjoyed only a few short years ago ( Read more... )

Most of today I either read or gardened, with a trip out to the wholesale nursery for a specimen to repot in the front yard. The first day of spring was idyllic. Mild weather and longer daylight helps take the edge of recent loss ( Read more... )

"I have a revolutionary idea," Frances wrote in response to my tearful email saying that salsa rueda wouldn't be happening this Friday. Frances's suggestion was that we get together for the fun of it, practice our dancing and I could give pointers. The food and fun would still be there ( Read more... )

After my morning walk and stopping for tea the fog has descended closer with a chilliness that keeps secret the promise of a spring day. And Mickey, the big cow kitty sleeps against my thigh atop the jumble of covers, blanket. He is warm against me which is, I suppose his purpose. I am content with his sleep that listens with half an ear to the ( Read more... )

I am clicking at the keyboard through squinched eyes swollen from crying all day. The drama, so unexpected, was that the FB broke up with me today. Turns out he had been planning this awhile ( Read more... )

My, how LiveJournal has grown while I was away. A place to embed media and auto-insert for images, etc. etc. I am grateful that some of my writing efforts from several years back are still archived here. I pick up the thread of my writing life since I am in the summer writing institute ( Read more... )

Perhaps I should return to this mode for ranting about the stupidities in the realm of public education. I struggle daily to keep my focus on the creative purpose of teaching. However, I don't even have time to rail and revile, properly. It's so stupid some of the things teachers have to do in the name of reform ( Read more... )

It seems that when politicians and corporate powers do guiltily throw money at public education, the funding winds up in administrators' and high tech support peoples' pockets. And these are the people who, combined with incompetent cronies who should have retired a long time ago, make it difficult to get much done in a common classroom.
Blah.