I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun!I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes,Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise.-Edna St. Vincent Millay ("Afternoon on a Hill")Some days you just want to do something different, go somewhere…
Chow Mo-wan: In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn't want to share... you know what they did? They went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever. -Wong Kar…
What is sometimes called a tongue of flameor an arm extended burning is only the longred and orange branch of a green maplein early September reaching into the greenest fieldout of the green woods at the edge of which the birch trees appear a little tattered tired of sustaining delicacyall through the…
Every day I want to speak with you. And every day something more important / calls for my attention -- the drugstore, the beauty products, the luggage / I need to buy for the trip./Even now I can hardly sit here / among the falling piles of paper and clothing, the garbage trucks outside/ already…
But little by little,as you left their voices behind,the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do--determined to savethe only life you could save.-Mary Oliver ("The Journey") Given…
When we eat alone we often break all the rules surrounding not only what to eat but when to eat and even where. And this is true regardless of what we know about cooking or about what makes a proper meal...Solo meals can be all corn and tomatoes if that's what you like. Solo meals…
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.- Edith WhartonEver since I started teaching (way back in August of 2008), I've generally had the early bird shift. My first ever Reading and Composition class…
I have a Castle of Silence, flanked by a lofty keep,And across the drawbridge lieth the lovely chamber of sleep; Its walls are draped in legends woven in threads of gold.Legends beloved in dreamland, in the tranquil days of old.-Daniel O'Connell Although I enjoy cooking, baking is my true passion. Cookies, cakes, breads, cupcakes, muffins, scones,…
Go hang yourself, you old M.D.! You shall not sneer at me. Pick up your hat and stethoscope, Go wash your mouth with laundry soap; I contemplate a joy exquisite, I'm not paying you for your visit. I did not call you to be told, My malady is a common cold.By pounding brow and swollen lip; By fever's hot and scaly grip;…
Moments of hopelessness should always be transformed into creation. But why? And for whom? -Margarita KarapanouIn this particular case, I can tell you the moment of hopelessness that has inspired my own act of creation: the fact that I'm grading, grading and grading. And somehow, despite my labor, the pile of essays doesn't seem to…
Dining with Dostoevsky 