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Strangest night. Surrounded by people and a party I just can't get into. What does it mean when you're more motivated, energized, an...

My new pet topic. I'm panicking because the University library has finally recovered from fire enough to know that I still have books ch...

Real job now. Fear of losing said job for blogging during work makes mjae a dull girl. But this month only, I live the life I dream of. I t...

from Slate.com Click here to listen to Patricia Traxler read this poem. The dead are not dead yet. Always they take their time, and we wait...

Heroic Computer Dies To Save World From Master's Thesis May 17, 2006 | Issue 42•20 WALT...

I'm a planner, okay? I love dreaming of the future. Now that the thesis is done, I'm reading books on identity and place -- specif...

from Alibi School The family around the table and a silence so compact no words can break it. Not even a pigeon swirling through the windo...

from Facts about the Moon The moon is backing away from us an inch and a half each year. That means if you’re like me and were born around f...

from Awake From behind he looks like a man I once loved, that hangdog slouch to his jeans, a sweater vest, his neck thick-veined as a horse ...

from Facts about the Moon Who remembers what she told me. The year.  What actually happened. Which hospital. My mother.  The man who died in...

from Facts about the Moon It is terrible, but not very terrible – Ursula K. Le Guin To leave your only child waiting at the airport for an h...

from Facts about the Moon I’d forgotten how fast it happens, the blush of fear and the feeling of helpless infantile stupidity, stooped over...

And I'm done baby. Two of three final copies delivered. I've got a stack of CDs to mail to friends who haven't heard from me in...

You have it all under control. A little here, a little there. An hour here, an hour there. Many, many nightmares in between... And then i...

You Can't Have It All by Barbara Ras But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown...

I have to say, I'm really proud of myself. I'm a perfectionist and an overachiever, so I don't say those words lightly or often....

i. cleaning up after boys the folding tucking finding places again for all that spilled onto ticking sheets this pile of words fabrics washe...

Today I'm bitter about love. Maybe I have time to think about it now. There's this repeating image of the man who wants/respects/ad...

Time to return to the flock. Which one? See here . The bestest ever reverend has blogs now! (She's on sabbatical.) Check out: http:/...

Birthings and birth things. Let's start with the time. Please note: 1:44 am. Once again, I'm at work printing. Deep into the morn...