Teaching has done strange things to my intellect. Every once in awhile, I’m feeling my intellectual oats. I’m either dishing poetry with Jeff or Joel, or a student asks a question that I can knock out of the park. Just this past week, while teaching poetry (I don’t even want to talk about [...]
Entries from February 2008
18 February 2008
Pippi Longstocking: Not for Amateurs
Jeff and I watched a double-feature yesterday of Pippi Longstocking and Once. Fortunately, Once was only 84 minutes long because Pippi Longstocking feels like it could be a five hour movie. I don’t know how many of you have seen Pippi Longstocking, the original I mean, from Sweden in 1969. I remember seeing [...]
10 February 2008
It’s hard to be a woman.
Now, this is not a politics blog. But I’m finding it very hard to stay away from politics given the awe-inspiring race between Hillary and Barack in the Democratic party. I happily got to vote this past Super Tuesday. From the beginning I have been a supporter of Hillary. Then I started to hear this [...]
