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I call the dojo upon waking, finally ready to express what’s been on my mind about the training for the past two months. Hanshi’s wife Dori answers and we chat, then she hands Hanshi the phone. [...]

Slowly, reality slips in. No one is helping students consolidate loans anymore. Not Sallie Mae, not Next Student, not Bank of America, not Student Loan Xpress. After many calls, I ask an agent [...]

Today, when my friend told me she has breast cancer, I chuckled and said, “What do you mean?” I might have even been smiling. “I mean, there’s a lump in my breast and the lump has cancer,” she [...]

It’s 12:20pm and time for the lunch rush at the coffeehouse, usually a two or three person job (bare minimum) but it’s change-over weekend (between sessions) on campus and raining out, so my boss [...]

In my mind, I talk to my teachers. Claire, I say, I’m studying those literary magazines you told me to submit to and last night I heard a voice, started a new story. Jack, I’m putting together a [...]

Ok, so I know I said I did the website updates yesterday, but THIS is important. I finally figured out how to change the file size of a Class of 2008 digital picture that a family friend took. [...]

Goodbye oh wi-fi world! I’m sitting at PDX drinking my last Coffee People Coffee Velvet Hammer (to go, with soy, medium, less 1 shot). Here are my website updates, including new sidebar [...]

Trying to post photos but am stuck on dial up tonight, with faulty wi-fi in the burbs of Portland. Flying all day tomorrow. More news as soon as I get my feet on the ground and/or high speed internet.

As soon as my head hit the pillow last night, my mind’s eye burst alive with their faces: My teachers. Those glorious mentors who have guided, taught, encouraged, and hugged me through the [...]

Graduation was fabulous! While I’m waiting to gather photos from that, check out this video on You Tube of the Graduating Class of June 2008 doing a spoof version of “Red River [...]