Category Archives: Musing

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By Erin | Published: August 31, 2010
This is being back on campus: The other day, on my way to my office from my first class, I passed a guy playing a guitar and a harmonica, just standing there with his back toward the pond and the clocktower, facing the waves of students going to and from class. On my way out [...]
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Intermission, 2

By Erin | Published: August 12, 2010
Orientation for new teachers and teachers of basic studies courses at the university today. Temperatures in the mid-90s, heat index well over 100, a walk across campus in jeans and a black top (trying to look professional). But, then, slightly dark air conditioned rooms with projectors and white boards, the sleek glass-and-technology of the CIS [...]
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From the Archives: Flux

By Erin | Published: July 27, 2010
Last year, after I came back from Congo I felt weightless and changeable, and this year I’ve been thinking about that time, and times like it. When we moved to North Carolina. Just like that. Packed everything up and left, just me and Jesse and our cat and our mismatched stuff. The feeling of leaving [...]
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Six, Continued

By Erin | Published: July 8, 2010
Yesterday, Jesse told me to be ready by 6:15 and to wear something nice. He picked me up, having changed clothes at work. He complimented my hair, called me beautiful, then whisked me off to a French restaurant, and then a movie, and between the two stops we sat in the parked car in the [...]
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Six

By Erin | Published: July 7, 2010
So, it’s been six years since we got married in a country-western bar in downtown Orlando. (Remind me to tell you the story if I haven’t already.) Since then, we’ve graduated from college (twice for me), moved, gotten jobs, left jobs and got other ones, lost jobs, joined a new church though convinced we’d never [...]
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Snapshot

By Erin | Published: July 1, 2010
Life: It’s cloudy out and I sort of wish I could spend the day sleeping, but I also have the day at home so I want to be productive. There are query letters fanned out across the carpet behind me, Gracie is sleeping in the living room, Oliver is staring out the kitchen window, I [...]
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On Mourning the Housewife

By Erin | Published: June 16, 2010
All right then, since we’re on Awkward Topics, let’s talk about my employment status. Let’s just go there. I suppose the technical term for me is “underemployed.” I’m not unemployed, a distinction I feel is important. But the job I have is decidedly not full-time. After I graduated with my MFA in 2008 (yeah, we’ll [...]
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