I’m Sensations (New Years Eve)

Happy 2008. I’m still on my Tommy kick, although the title is not so obvious this time. Alexandra says: 2008 is great. It even rhymes. Our toast last night was for 2008 to be better than 2007, no matter how good 2007 was. I decided to have a sensual New Year’s Eve; here are some of my experiences: […]

See me. Hear me. Touch me. Heal me.

I’ve turned various powders into something tangible, something that feels good, sustenance you can hold in your hand. I wish I had an excuse to bake more often. I need that practice, if I am ever going to open my own bakery. Sadly, dear reader, my bread is not something I can readily share with you. (Unless […]

A letter to ZWB (and a diversion for everyone else)

Dear Zack,

Thanks for sharing your web comic, Thawed Out […]

Aleean Atack Pizza

Today I was a substitute teacher in a first and second grade classroom. I loved it. It isn’t just that the kids are cute, but perhaps more that they are so emphatically PEOPLE, despite being so cute. […]

Speaking to My Condition

He described an event he witnessed when he was committed himself, where an orderly sat outside a door reading Agatha Christie while the patient inside […]

Photos of Three Simple Pleasures

A few days ago, I found myself with a disposable camera and a few pictures left to take. I snapped these on my way to the camera store where I had it developed: […]

“Dance wif me?”

At last, here it is.
Weddings. Friends. Vermont. Dancing. Now,
on Schopenhauer. […]

Preview

A subbing-related interview with the director of Oregon Episcopal’s middle school, giving a Classroom Law Project court tour, three straight days of subbing — HUZZAH!, and job applications to fill out) are preventing me from writing about our recent visit to Vermont […]

Steiner Says… And So Do I

Trying to have your cake and eat it to, without defining “cake,” “eat,” or even “it,” is a good way to end up with a soggy, doughy mess. Roosevelt stood for four freedoms, and he hated fear as much as he hated the terrorists. Nowadays, it is an either/or proposition. […]

Three Life Stories

Subbing has picked up a little. This week, I spent a morning at the Portland Waldorf School, one day in an 8th-grade math class, and this morning reading with 2nd-graders. This is really important. Especially financially. It is dangerous to have to decide […]