From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Chocolate Anyone?

28.11.2009

I’ve spent the past month gorging on chocolate chip cookies, and I’m not proud enough to deny my mini-addiction anymore. There. I’ve said it. No more sneaking cookies. I’m out in the open now. I’ve been stuffing down these confections with almost dime-sized chunks of melted chocolate, I think every day of November. This isn’t [...]

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Holiday Reading

26.11.2009

I think I’ve always had like/dislike issues with holidays. I loved them when I was little. I lived for Christmas Eve and leaving hot cocoa and cookies for Santa. But when I got much older and worked in clinical nursing, I worked just about all of the holidays known to modern civilization. I got out [...]

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Just Turn It Off

22.11.2009

Students tell me a lot of things. One of the most common things I hear is that they don’t have time to write. One of the most fascinating things students tell me is that they don’t watch TV, or even own a television set. Granted, there aren’t many of them. They tend, however, to be [...]

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If A Tree Falls In The Woods…

21.11.2009

A recent storm ended up being more wind than rain. I’d forgotten all about it by the morning. It wasn’t until the next day, when I was up on the deck that I saw what the wind had done. Where my yard ends and my woods begins, a poplar tree fell. I was stunned. I [...]

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