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[Painting by Gustave Moreau depicting Saint George slaying the dragon from Wikipedia.] I'm teaching Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit again...

Clif went out and secretly bought me a gift. Here's the gift, and here's Clif looking sneaky.

that I apparently put together sometime around 1979, and that I only have the vaguest recollection of.

[for Todd Colby] I’m building a sled from popsicle sticks I’m wearing the jacket of the lamb, sliding into a town near you to ...

1. You'll catch more flies with honey . Sure. But who wants to catch flies? 2. Will my homemade therapies work? (A round of made-up...

I dreamed the moon was the hugest it had ever been, which helped explain our behavior. The real things, though, were the hawk on a near tr...

Last night and today, I've been working on two poem drafts inspired by the ice storm. Luckily, I don't have to go back to campus un...

I Am Always by Joanna Penn Cooper and Todd Colby I love how all your friends are shy. You befriend them in order to put them at ease, make ...

1. I think I'm going to start putting something on my blog every Wednesday. This is the year in which I tell some version of the truth...

I’ve cleaned off a space on my desk big enough to riff on you twenty times. By which I mean I’m on the bus back from Boston, thinking ...

image from Flixster.com Exit Through the Gift Shop [First movie of 2011. Interesting-ish; hoax-ish] Shutter Island [better than I thought...

New Year's Eve: Chimay and cheese and heirloom tomatoes. Twilight Zone. New Year's Day: Sushi. Poetry Project at St. Mark's ...