As if antibiotic-resistant pneumonia for me and a nasty chest cold for Fang weren’t enough, the household gods decided to toss in another challenge. Here’s Lucas’s op-ed from New Year’s Day:
[Continue reading...]An appreciation
January 2, 2013 By
I have to admit, when Fang said we should sign the boy up for Taekwondo, I was a skeptic. My pacifism runs deep, and I was worried Taekwondo involved a lot of fighting. We had already talked at length about how Lucas was going to be a big kid, and if he happened to inherit […]
[Continue reading...]Into the heart of whiteness and gun violence
January 2, 2013 By
A couple weeks back, before waves 1 and 2 of the pneumonia hit, I promised to write a series of posts about gun control. Meanwhile, there has been a ton of insightful writing about gun violence in the United States, so my series here may feel more like a round-up than a new contribution. That […]
[Continue reading...]Gratitude
December 31, 2012 By
I am so thankful for my little family this week. Lucas has been a great gofer and has (mostly) kept himself entertained. (He has been making Valentine’s Day cards for the extended family and sewing little felt pouches adorned with hearts as gifts.) And Fang has gone above and beyond the requirements of those in-sickness-and-in-health […]
[Continue reading...]Themes for 2013: Completion, then space
December 31, 2012 By
A couple weeks with pneumonia means a lot of time propped up on the couch. Once the novelty of watching way too much TV wore off, my eyes wandered to the books on the shelves, cobwebs in high places, dust on the baseboards, Christmas tree needles embedded in the living room rug. Image source Before […]
[Continue reading...]Wheeeeee!
December 30, 2012 By
Image source Just when I thought I was out of the pneumoniac woods, it ends up it’s antibiotic-resistant pneumonia. I’m now on a new antibiotic, one that the physician’s assistant assures me will “kill anything inside” me.* Yay? *Just looked up the antibiotic–it’s also used to treat meningitis, anthrax, tuberculosis, and plague. Fun times.
[Continue reading...]Blog, interrupted
December 26, 2012 By
Image source I had the best intentions of exploring gun violence in the U.S. in a series of posts here–and I still will. However, the day after finals ended, I came down with bacterial pneumonia. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. As soon as I have fully recovered, I’m getting the damn vaccine, as this […]
[Continue reading...]Not-so-random bullets
December 17, 2012 By
Back in my cultural studies grad school days, I heard frequent exhortations by left-leaning professors that the classroom is inherently a political space and we should be open about our own political stances. About half of the faculty I heard this from seemed to be saying that students’ own beliefs need challenging (and broadening), while […]
[Continue reading...]Connecticut
December 14, 2012 By
Pay attention to the number on the right. And please donate to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence if you are so moved.
[Continue reading...]A semester full of crises
December 12, 2012 By
Not for me. For my students. Let’s make an inventory, shall we? PTSD debilitating illness debilitating depression debilitating anxiety at least one jailed spouse crises of single parenting job loss family members at death’s door friends murdered friends committing suicide friends on suicide watch friends injured or killed in horrible accidents debilitating migraines And I […]
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