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The summer I read Gone With the Wind, I won a second place medal in synchronized swimming.  The morning I finished it, I went to practice and my eyes were already red for Rhett Butler.  After practice I went home … Continue reading →

My fifteen-year-old is on spring break and is being unusually nice to me.  Instead of grading tonight, I accepted a rare invitation to play a board game.  And she didn’t even mind that I won, twice. She doesn’t talk to … Continue reading →

The snow is almost gone And yet I resist spring Don’t want to get fooled again Yesterday I walked out of work After 18 student conferences, exhausted Happy I simply like my students They make me happy It is lovely … Continue reading →

Even when I say I pine for you, I am inhaling the drift of crushed needles in the woods behind Pausacaco, where my siblings and I played bears (not dolls) piling up orange needle houses for us to hide in … Continue reading →

My Ohio has layers of disclaimers and justifications and excuses for being affiliated with the Midwest, oh my parents are from the east, we just came here for my dad’s work, I was born in New Jersey.  My Ohio holds … Continue reading →

  Northampton, Massachusetts is a vibrant New England city with a town-like feel, offering pleasures to locals and tourists alike (everyone’s getting priced out.  Whalen’s Office Supply got pushed to the margins of town before it folded).  Restaurants like the … Continue reading →

I eat Ellen and I drink Sally.  These are the words of a mother about her two daughters.  The mother eats Ellen, reveling in her searching intellect, her boundless curiosity, her Ellenness.  She drinks Sally, sipping Sally’s sharp wit, her … Continue reading →