As if I didn’t already need 12 more hours in a day… I read about this challenge on another blog and decided that it might be a good way to jump starting my writing. These entries have nothing to do with my actual writing project, but any writing practice is great conditioning for the big [...]
Tag: i was just thinking
I’m being redundant; feel free to ignore me.
Within a single semester I receive doctors notes from quiet, bright Simone-with-the-dimples to excuse her absences and allow her to make up missed assignments. Today she returns to class after a week long hiatus with a new note: this one for an infection. She confides in me: "Those notes, Ms. Scott, are because I had [...]
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I do it because…
Sacred Circle Baltimore, MD June 2008 I'm shy. Sometimes painfully shy. And because I want to get my sexy back. Okay, I want to get my sexy period. It makes me feel connected to my ancestors. It makes me feel connected to my limbs. Because I teach and I need to feel how it feels [...]
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I do it because…
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Amherst, VA May 2006 I can’t stop. Because my outside voice is quieter than my inside voice. Because my sisters found my journal, read it, and laughed. Because it never makes sense and I prefer order to chaos. I'm stubborn. Because I can shape chaos into order if I [...]
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I do it because…
McDonald's Half Marathon Richmond, VA 13 November 2010 I can :). And some people can’t 😦 and maybe wouldn’t, probably, if they could walk 😉 But still Because… I love the high and drugs do other not-so- nice things to a body. Because it made my boobs shrink :(. And my waist :). And I [...]
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Baby Face
9:30 a.m. We close out her tutoring session and she says she plans to come back to work on her next project. She asks me something about using the online system, Smarthinking, and then: "Oh and I have one more question," "Sure, what's up?" "Are you a lady?" "Well, I used to be a man, [...]
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Mile 12
Today I finished mile 12 of my half marathon training! In January when I put out an official notice that I "did not intend to tiptoe through life" I didn't exactly have this in mind. At the time I had no real idea how to undertake or whether I would be able to undertake that [...]
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The Way of the Grey
Yesterday I completed my first race! 10 miles! Ran every one of them too not even stopping at the Gatorade/water stops every two miles. I’m still high off the accomplishment. Everytime I run I get the same high. (Sometimes it’s slow in coming and a lot of times it’s short lived, but I take what [...]
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My bad…
So I was watching Jeopardy the other night. The contestant offers a response to the question on the board. Alex Trebeck is, like, "Yes, select." Gasps and disorder come from the peanut gallery. Another contestant buzzes in to answer. The other contestant pronounces the response correctly. Alex directs his eyes to Other Contestant, "Yes, the [...]
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Let That Be the Story
" Don't forget who you are...and where you stand in the struggle." So Much Things to Say -- Robert Nesta Marley Long time; no talk, yeah? Still on my overly punctuating game you’ll notice from the three pieces of it in that short not-really-a-sentence. Pardon my geekiness: that ain’t changed. My address has—whew-ew! Fat stats [...]
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