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Oh, I'm underwater alright, but I'm not drowning. Nope, I'm just swimming underwater! I'm making progress, so it's not ...

Our family gets lighter and lighter in each generation. Pictured is the natural emotional state of my grandmother. I showed this picture to...

This is my grandpa, a smart, charming, wonderful man who would disown me if he ever knew I dated -- in his words -- non-WASP men. Strange an...

Jury's still out and I struggle to keep working.

He's read a book on asphyxiation tells her to keep breathing says suffocating's the worst way to go –   eyes bugging out - but there...

Just give it 5 weeks and he’ll fall hook line and sinker -- sinking her to new lows fresh blows baby-breathing themselves from cheek to chee...

Isn't it strange how we move into and out of philsophical periods? I guess I'm neck deep in a moment of life-introspection. Feels g...

I've got a lot to remember. I heard this week that I must work to be more gentle, which really means to allow myself to have more fun, t...

Mikaela says: So it appears I'm in the poetry scene again. You might say, of course, look how hard you worked for the National Poetry S...

The past has thickened into a fog that cuts off my perspective yet again. These issues...these questions about how to balance the focus on...

Locked and loaded. Date set. Shotgun procured, and I am wed to the thesis. The committee is signed on, belted in, and I have yet to belt o...

So 8 hours later, grading is done. Oh my god! The portfolios took at least 20 minutes each, and there are 38 students. The worse the gramm...

Alf Simon, director of the Landscape Architecture program at UNM, shared his 5 reasons for sustaining a passion about Landscape at an all-...

So I made it through a tough week. Tonight: the last of the grading. Tomorrow: a play -- Clive Barker's Frankenstein in Love at the...

But today it seems doable. Fog clearing a little. A little . Last night was a public meeting whereI actually got to do some facilitation. ...

Feeling underwater. I cannot believe my life this week. So surreal. I'm floating and disconnected and panicked all at once. Teaching wen...

I just want to make the small but crucial distinction that while I do believe in connection, I do NOT believe that everything is "one...

So a while ago, I started my philosophical treatise on connection -- how connection is really the moral standard because it reflects the rea...

I had some momentum. I was writing. Things were shaping up. There's still momentum, I guess, but I'm experiencing this strange but f...

No thinking this weekend. Lots of non-thinking. Sleep. No sleep. Bad tv. Eating out. Soy ice cream. Jordan almonds. And a book. Frea...