When I went to China, I came back exhausted, overwhelmed by the interculural exchange in which I had participated, and also by the sheer pace of our travel. I was a vegetarian at the time, and I'm sure that I also had not gotten the nutrition that my body required during the trip, even though food was plentiful and delicious. (i began to crave ( Read more... )

I am thinking about becoming a teacher, for real. It's something that I've struggled with for years, with my Mom having a masters in ed that she doesn't use and all, wondering whether or not it was tight for me or not. Is it too overwhelming, or do I need something this engaging in order to feel alive ( Read more... )

When I turn on the burner for the heat in my apartment, it smells like burnt hair and I feel like I'm about to burn my apartment down/get poisoned by that silent evil carbon monoxide gas, and I feel like a stupid little girl ( Read more... )

Is it possinle that every path i consider, every way I think i might have open to me, is the wrong one? Or is blocked ( Read more... )

I may not know if anyone will get back to me. If I will be ignored--but I do know, that when I talk, they listen.

I really miss participating in an educated dialogue about photography ( Read more... )

I was told to wait. Does that mean go crazy trying to do things, working, thinking, thinking? Because that pretty much makes me anxious. I want results nowrightnow.

the sundance kid just called it "the creative impulse." Like when some joe gets a hankering for a cigarette.

Eliot and I, and other prison escapees, were on the lamb through a small New England town. we split up, and I lost them as I passed through a trailer park, where we were supposed to meet. I was afugitive, so it was hard to be watching out for someone I knew when I couldn't have my face out in the open for people to see ( Read more... )

the way that the examiners responded to my photography made me feel really small. And I don't remember feeling right ever since. I can't see things the way I used to, the magic that light, or color or form can produce. Shallow, though well meaning praise only makes me think that most people don't know what good photography is, so how should their ( Read more... )