I Paul Ryan is truly disgusting and I have to say, this is why I do not like to teach lower division students — too many of them resemble him, and emulate men like him. And that, in turn, is why I do not like the fall semester. I do not have dissociative episodes about … More Des dialogues
Too tame a life, perhaps that is it. I would rather have the life of Sir Richard Burton, or someone like that. He, too, was a scholar. Notice, though, the vocabulary of debt and obligation that goes with academia. You did a Ph.D. People say the price you pay is to teach. You owe the … More “Too tame a life”
I must be an impulsive risk-taker, not quite in my right mind, and I was probably a victim of child rape although I do not remember it. I am distanced from the emotions I must surely have. Indeed, I am downright unfeeling. Why is this so? Because I do not exhibit the requsite fear of … More On race and gender policing
It is not that I must protect my time and project, with management and discipline — it is that I must allow my time and project to protect me. My mother has been saying I was an organized person since before I started school. I never knew how she had seen this so soon, how … More Slightly Spontaneous
I have actually seen this service performed and it was quite oppressive, almost like a malediction. This is not how one is to take it, I know, but when I read Rosario Castellanos’ novel by this title I had not yet attended the service. Having had the experience, I see things somewhat better. Axé.
At the pool I ran into my ex’ other ex and we exchanged notes on our summer activities. “You have a nice life,” she said; “I did try to make this summer good,” said I. But in general I do have a pleasant life and it is because of having given up considering what I … More Une belle vie
My banana trees have actually produced bananas, and good ones, too. I am very impressed. I will cook them somehow with drumfish, which is juicy, and perhaps with the green oranges which fell. I have decided that all non organic US meat must be avoided at all times, and all wheat, as well as every … More Tropical
You deserve to put research first and also to recognize and honor the conditions you need to have in order to do so. I took these ideas for granted until I became a professor, after which they were eroded — in part by other professors who alleged one should be able to work in any … More Encore un petit poème
Axé.
De la musique pour le weekend, from the Grupo Bahía Trío. The music of the Pacific coast of Colombia is brilliant and too little known. Where is the picture in the first frame? It could be New Orleans, and there is so much in the world that is interrelated and we do not know it. … More Rumba Chonta
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