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The MFA program I’m in is year round—but we get five weeks off in winter and three in spring. Now, I’m nearing the completion of my third semester (one month remaining) and the five-week break [...]

I spent the weekend on homework lockdown, skipping the Halloween parties, skipping the excuses to leave town, skipping the made up errands, and sticking to the plan of rejuvenation. Yoga to open [...]

I cancel the appointment with my MD because, 1. I have one month of work left before seasonal layoff and a winter schedule, which will afford a lot of time for balance, meditation, and yoga if I [...]

Reflection is good, right? And helps one gain perspective, right? Right. Here goes. Things that are different about me since I started grad school: 1. I am not as connected with nature, or my [...]

How many acronyms can I use in one blog post? DD comes to the party and meets my friends and is an all around, sweet, subtle, good-for-you kinda man hit. In other words: thumbs up from the [...]

Here’s the thing. The anxiety fades like a sunspot for a few days, then hammers me into the ground one morning and doesn’t let up until the wee hours of the next day. It goes like this: round and [...]

What can I say? I had six teenaged girls over to my house from the old boarding school this weekend for a sleepover. Two of them had permission from their parents to shave their heads, and so a [...]

Second Memory It’s cold. And I am four years old at Maxine’s house. She is in her forties, tall as my mom and plump as a pillow that I crawl on when the other kids aren’t demanding all her [...]

It’s a balmy day in Tinyville, NC and I am out and about, hunting down local historians on a moment’s notice to try and pull together a write-up about the Blevins Building downtown. My dear [...]

At a certain point, one has to wonder…could this be more than just a phase? It seems like my nervousness and trouble sleeping are actually, when you get down to it, more like low-level anxiety or [...]