We celebrated the centennial of the Manhattan Bridge yesterday. The Manhattan, though not as famously gorgeous as the Brooklyn, is one of my favorite city bridges. It often gets pretty short shrift as far as adoring attention goes, but the city gave it quite a nice party, ending with a fireworks display by the famous [...]
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And Many Happy Returns
Posted in memoir, my own private Idaho, photography, things I love, tagged memoir, my own private Idaho, photography, things I love on 5 October 2009 | 3 Comments »
14 Sleeps
Posted in Jamaica, choose your own adventure, self care, things I love, tagged Jamaica, things I love, self care, places I love on 2 October 2009 | 8 Comments »
That’s my count down number for Jamaica. Two weeks from now, I’ll have touched down at Sangster, been collected by my taxi driver and driven down and down and down to the opposite coast. I’ll have driven through the huge orange orchard and past the “Jah Lives in I” shack. I’ll have stopped at Scott’s Cove to [...]
A Slight Return
Posted in NaBloPoMo, memoir, music, nostalgia, people I love, teaching, things I love, where we're from, tagged everything old is new again, I remember, memoir, music, NaBloPoMo, nostalgia, people I love, teaching, things I love, where we're from on 17 August 2009 | 7 Comments »
This Monday’s memoir honors the 40th anniversary of Woodstock and takes me back to the music unit I did the first year I taught high school. Students chose some of their favorite songs, shared the lyrics and wrote a series of essays: a couple of compare and contrasts, one persuasive about their favorite genre and [...]
Monsoons and Mermaids
Posted in out and about, people I love, photography, things I love, where we're from, tagged Mermaid Parade, out and about, people I love, photography, things I love, where we're from on 20 June 2009 | 5 Comments »
windows fogged over
rainy, humid morning ride
taking me downtown
April spilled into mid-June
Esos dias de lluvia
(Is it cheating to throw a Spanish line into my tanka? Maybe. Full disclosure: I’m not still writing one a day, but I am still writing.)
Today is the annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade, and today’s mermaids will need to be waterproof. One [...]
Love and Fishes
Posted in poetry, teaching, things I love, tagged poetry, tanka, teaching, things I love on 21 May 2009 | 6 Comments »
We were a small class last night: Yenny, Muy Chen, Miao, Dariusz and Wilson. Jason came, but disappeared at break — a too-often problem with him.
We’ve been working on Octavio Paz’s “My Life with the Wave.”¹ I’ve always loved this story. I first read it forever ago when I was teaching high school, discovered it [...]
