http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Last night I nearly drowned. I’m not sure how I ended up in the water.It was salt water, frothy, and that brownish color of a pond or lake and there was a lot of turbulence, so I was struggling. You should know that I am not a swimmer in my waking life. My personal [...]
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A Decade Late and a Lot of Dollars Short
I read Thomas Benton's first article about the virtual uselessness of a graduate degree in the Humanities way back in 2003. I had just finished my first year of full time salaried teaching at my choice of universities; I had turned down an offer at a major university because "I didn't wanna live in the [...]
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IKEA makes me sad.
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott I have long loved IKEA. Filled with all sorts of home and lifestyle stuff that is hip and useful and decently crafted, IKEA is a place for dreamers, visionaries, and even those with little to no vision to be inspired. Some weekday mornings when papers needed to be graded, lesson plans to be written, [...]
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My Other Glass Slipper
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott This comes from a series of essays I began back when Skippy was a pup called Angry With Abstinence and Other Reasons to Riot about (among other things) my Chinese pen pal, growing up in the crack era, how dying my hair matched my relationships, and dating a drug dealer I pretended I did [...]
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My Birthday
Yesterday was the first birthday I've spent with my family in a number of years. They're nice people; polite, humble, intelligent, funny people who have not held it against me that I save trips home for everyday holidays more than ones marked on the calendar. It was a noisy experience as is usually the case [...]
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Whimper’s Olympics
Image Courtesy of "A Welsh View" http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2004/08/img_alt_srchttp_151.html http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott They say you can tell a lot about a person by watching how they behave under pressure. If the last four months have been any indication of the real me, you have likely found that I'm a gold medalist in the Whimper's Olympics. This accomplishment is not one [...]
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WORLD AIDS DAY
Today I think of Mr. Williams, Beatrice's mom and dad, Delvin, Victor, Chester. If you have no person to think of, here's some other stuff you can think about to fill in that grey space in your brain. On this 20th Annual World AIDS Day In many developing countries a woman's biggest risk factor for being infected is getting [...]
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Welcome the New Moon!
(Diagram from http://www.moonconnection.com) http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Check your calendar: It's a new moon! Okay that may mean nothing or something depending on how you define "pagan," but I enjoy observing and reflecting on moon cycles; including my own. I didn't really understand why for most of my life; just figured it was another of my weirdo tendencies, but you [...]
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Fail better.
Imagine it like being in water. It's when you fight it that you're most likely to drown. Go with it. You might not float to the top as quickly as you'd like. But you will float back to the top. If you don't fight it of course. That's what I keep trying to tell myself. [...]
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Miriam Makeba Makes Her Transition
http://www.myspace.com/darleneanitascott Miriam Makeba, South African singer/activist/conjure woman, has transitioned at the age of 76. I'm not anything close to the biggest fan of her music. I only remember listening to one of her songs songs ad nauseum a couple of years ago—can't even remember its name—that was especially good for getting it going on the [...]
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