I wrote this originally as an exercise a while back, but I thought that it was worth including here because it’s still true, every day. I’m still a weird Scrodinger’s experiment of fine and yet not fine, all the time. I saw this piece of poetry recently, and I felt, well…seen. I have built my
One thing you should probably know about me is that I used to watch soap operas. A lot. I watched routinely 3 hours a day during the summers growing up, and from 1982 on (the year we got our first VCR), I sometimes watched more than that, continuing probably till I was in my mid
Home is an interesting idea. I have lived here in Washington DC for 33 of the last 36 years. Before that, I lived in rural PA for 19 years, and in WV for two years. In the middle of my tenure here, I lived in Pittsburgh for three years, to attend grad school at Pitt.
I wish I’d kept track of how many journals I’ve tried to keep over the years, starting with that little white one in 1976 that I wrote in for about a week. Even then, I was paralyzed by what to write. Plus the lines were too small for my way-too-large letters. There have likely been
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