Category Archives: writing

Braving the Storm

I swear, if I had the money right now I’d hire someone to beat me about the head with a loaf of whole wheat bread if I go a week without updating the .org, let alone over a month. Anyway, back in April I announced on my Twitter and Facebook that I was moving to Cleveland this summer, and that I’d post a .journal entry about the whole thing in May.  This is, in a way, the culmination of something I’d been working on since…

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Married to My Work

Last month was the first calendar month since I started blogging that I didn’t post a single entry.  I apologize for that, but as much as my life has slowed down in some areas, it’s approaching mach speed in others.  My personal life is going through a huge transition right now, I’m trying to formulate Plan B — the backup in case The Plan doesn’t work (and at this point it looks like one of them has to work if I’m to retain any sense…

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Pretty Good Year

I always say I focus more on looking back over the past year on my birthday than on the last day of December, but given how most people use this day to reflect back, it’s hard for me not to do so as well.  If I said I didn’t like how this past year went, I’d have plenty of bad stuff to point to.  Mom’s health problems over the past year were certainly difficult (and as if things weren’t bad enough, she dislocated one of…

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The End of Reality

I often talk to my students about the ways in which arguments are framed.  Anyone, with enough time and research skills, can find a way to set up an argument that, on its surface, will seem devastating, if not scary.  Take, for example, Republican claims in 2004 that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry was the most liberal member of the Senate — even more liberal than his Massachusetts counterpart, Ted Kennedy — and was thus too radical to become President.  Technically Kerry was judged to…

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Another Quick Update

I knew October and November would be busy months for me, since they always are thanks to my teaching schedule.  Trying to balance that with everything else in my life has been quite a struggle, as I have so many big things going on right now, especially with my writing projects, that I just don’t have time for everything.  My social life finally seems to be back on the upswing, but that will be severely hampered as the weather gets cold and snow prevents me…

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