“Only the Lord saw the midnight tears.” – James Baldwin I liked this quote. I just realized something this weekend that will make my life incredibly easier, incredibly simplified. It is almost too easy. If I want to travel more internationally, and which I do – in order to do that, I will have to […]
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Just thoughts
I am getting excited for this semester. I mentioned I am taking a class on memoir, which also essentially means I am also taking a class on memory, and how we remember. In Professor Melnyczuk’s words: We will pay special attention early in the semester to the hazards of memory: how far do we trust […]
Peculiarity
I have been reading a fair amount this winter break from school, but I think my neurons have been a bit fried to write all that much. I have been sleeping a lot. But I have been getting the best sleep I think ever have. My educated guess is because my body is functioning with […]
Nicole
“Have you ever had to drink this stuff?” Nicole asked. “No,” shaking my head. She was hanging onto the jug of Golightly making a sideways face, her eyebrows lifted. Me, I was on my way to work at medical records at the U of M, passing through the pharmacy. Nicole and I met when she […]
Carry A. Nation
Today the name Carrie Nation came to mind; aka. Carry Nation or Carry A. Nation. She was a robust woman, standing about six-feet, born in the mid-1800s that was a stern believer in prohibition and the temperance movement. She believed that alcohol tore families and societies apart – as it did her own. She married […]