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You are kidding? What the French Toast? And “Time Passages”

Hello at almost midnight on a Friday night, The phrase of “when you least expect it, expect it.” something I used to say to others as a sort of admonishment or a tongue-in-cheek warning per se had come to roost today with an unbelievable vengeance. For the last two years, more off than on, IContinue reading “You are kidding? What the French Toast? And “Time Passages””

Trying to Manage the Pieces

Hello from my snowy little corner. This past weekend saw the first major snowstorm of the season for Bloomsburg.This was true when I first began this post at the end of January. It is now early April, and in spite of a mild winter I am flying back into the probability of 2-4 inches ofContinue reading “Trying to Manage the Pieces”

A week of disjuncture

Good early morning from a van (traveling with students to NYC), Needless to say I am not driving. It is a bit ironic that I wrote an earlier entry much like this March of 2014, but I was on my way back from NYC with José, Melissa, and Jordan after seeing Stomp. Today I amContinue reading “A week of disjuncture “

Writing to living or living to write

Good Saturday morning, I am trying to manage, arrange, and accomplish all the things that need to be done and have my life in some semblance of order by one week from today. That is my desire and, depending on the moment, such a goal seems modestly obtainable. There are the other moments itContinue reading “Writing to living or living to write”

Trying to Understand

Good evening from Filet, The stress of both 8 months and the last two weeks sort of culminated in the same afternoon and evening (a spans of about 5 hours). When I tried to renovate a barn (circa 1880) and after deciding in consultation that it could not be saved, I began a project thatContinue reading “Trying to Understand”

Grateful for a Life, but One too Short

Hello on a cold, but manageable day, It is in the single digits outside and for Pennsylvanians, but I actually like this kind of weather. Perhaps it is because it reminds me of being small. Perhaps it reminds me of the times I would play in the yard one particularly snowy winter and we madeContinue reading “Grateful for a Life, but One too Short”

39 Years

Hello from my upstairs, If my older brother were alive, he would be 65 years old, old enough to collect social security. It is late on the 9th of February as I begin to compose this latest post, but I am pretty sure I will not finish it tonight. Part of that is because itContinue reading “39 Years”

What if?

Good early afternoon from Starbucks in Selinsgrove, I quick trip over to check at Best Buy to replace a cord I have lost (actually I lost an entire bag of things), and I can see Melissa, Jordan, and their father merely rolling their eyes and shaking their collective heads. This loss might be one ofContinue reading “What if? “

A Year from Now?

Hello from my office, When we wake up a year from now, the United States will have a new president spending their first full day as the leader of an immensely diverse populace that will have somehow determined that he or she (and at least at the moment that seems to be a distinct possibility)Continue reading “A Year from Now?”

Throwing a Rope

Good morning from Costa and Kraków. We are down to the last 48 hours in Kraków and I got up early to do some work. Students have the morning off, though, as usual, some did not read the syllabus and were clueless about the morning schedule. Others are certainly sleeping in as I heard theirContinue reading “Throwing a Rope”