Out of loss and pain comes connection and, hopefully, healing:
This summer camp for teens across the world who have lost family due to terrorism seems like a truly wonderful wonderful idea.
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I loathe the TSA and I loathe the fact that we have allowed this wasteful, ineffective, corrupt, law-breaking institution to gobble up our money and our rights.
I’ve not been writing. Not creatively at least, and certainly not regularly in a long time. Mostly because I’ve been struggling with some emotional issues that have gotten in the way of focus, creativity, and discipline. While I still have those struggles, I think it’s time to give myself a small enough challenge that I can feasibly meet it, even with diminished energy. 250 words is a really small amount of writing to do and there is no reason I can’t manage to accomplish that for the next 25 days, even if what I write is stream-of-consciousness blather, I can make 250 words.
The last time I did a series of writing challenges like this they helped get me back into the habit of writing and I always feel better when I’m am writing and creating regularly, so this is part challenge, part therapy. So, from today until August 11, I will write at least 250 creative words (story, script, poem,, monologue, etc.) each day.
I received the following email recently: Aren’t you the smart darling with whom we had the most thrilling picnic a couple of time ago? Remember, I was scared of swimming in the river and you assured me I’d be OK and we ended up chatting the night away? You alone then and I had an …
I have a fascination with deserts and there is a me, not the me that I am, but the me that I am not who is gaunt, burnished a deep golden brown by the sun, utterly self-sufficient, needing little, reflecting not on theatre history and theory but on the shape of shadows, the angles of …
This week has been a rough one. Between the heat and moving, I’ve felt completely out of sorts, lost to myself. Like I’ve been watching my life from a distance. Unable to focus, it’s taken me much longer to start getting the new place in order and the old place cleaned up than I had …
When corporations take over the academy:
Not to be a downer, but this is a harbinger of things to come. Academic institutions are changing, we need to figure out how to direct that change instead of letting it sweep us out in a riptide.
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When corporations take over the academy:
Not to be a downer, but this is a harbinger of things to come. Academic institutions are changing, we need to figure out how to direct that change instead of letting it sweep us out in a riptide.
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