Category Archives: Musing

Failure Is an Option

By Erin | Published: March 18, 2011

Spring break is nearly over, but I am trying (and failing) not to think about that. Of course, as usual, I wanted to accomplish twice what I actually did. My taxes are still half done (I was gung-ho about them until TurboTax said I was going to end up owing…then I lost steam). The yard [...]

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Necessary Clarification

By Erin | Published: March 14, 2011

I can’t stop watching news about Japan. I’m sure you can’t either. I know that ironing and sandwiches and spring break and whatever else I’m going to write about this week mean nothing in light of what’s happening. I just don’t know how to talk about it or write about it. It doesn’t seem real, [...]

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Pain

By Erin | Published: February 3, 2011

I am in a lot of pain today. I’ve done something to my back, and it’s been bad since yesterday evening. I don’t know what I did—picked something up wrong, bent the wrong way, strained it with the Costco groceries. I’m not sure. I have a bad back anyway, a souvenir from a car accident [...]

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Work/Life

By Erin | Published: January 26, 2011

The semester is in full swing: there is writing to grade, there are discussions to shape, there are poems to study. If I loved teaching last fall, I love it more now. Jesse and I have started driving to work together two days a week. We get up in the dark, and I make us [...]

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All Good Things

By Erin | Published: January 20, 2011

Last Thursday was my last day as an advocate. I cried. But not too much, in front of other people at least. Let me back up. In case you’ve joined us recently, let me explain. For the last couple years I’ve held a volunteer position at my church that gave me the nifty title of [...]

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