I was really, really, really trying not to write about this. However, my anger towards the powers at be is too large. There is going to be a revolution in this country. It is coming. The water is boiling, and people are taking to the streets. I also want you to pay very close attention […]
The Situation
I have so much reading to do and so much writing to do, I can’t even tell you. It isn’t just the semester work, it is my final project. I have five or six books so far in my possession that I need to read for my final project. I am guessing I will have […]
Looking up
“Coon Rapids family copes with CF disease” – ABC newspapers November 2, 1979 Two-year-old Tessa Weber acts and looks the same as any other child her age. She is except that Tessa suffers from Cystic Fibrosis, the most common genetic disease in America and the number one genetic killer of children. From her parents, Robert […]
My feet. My lungs.
“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 […]
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 […]
Happy New Year’s!
I love food. I think food and drinking coffee are my favorite past times. I had my first colonoscopy with success! “Normal” – such a great word. My goal was to get it done by the end of the year. I squeaked it in. I worked hard on my prep. CFers have the extended, long […]
The Road
I think I barely got by with an A this semester. I handed in a draft of my final paper a week and a half ago and had to tie-in more of the semester readings. I knew it wasn’t grounded that much in the readings, more of a leaping-off point. Truthfully, some of the readings […]