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Be safe! Good luck!
Off to Washington. Heigh-ho, heigh-ho!
Am I nervous and anxious because I still have four more essays to grade before school tomorrow and I'm just too tired to face it? Or because tomorrow is the Inauguration, and I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think of it and of the next four years? Or because we're heading out for a quick tri...
Congrats! That's wonderful news!
Here's some happy news!
I've been granted a sabbatical! From January through June 2018, I'll be on paid sabbatical from FGS. I am very excited. (FGS offers the same deal as many colleges do: a year at half-pay or a half-year at full pay. I'm choosing the latter option.) It's taken quite a few years for me to get to th...
I know exactly how you feel! I've been taking piano lessons for as long as I can remember (and for the last 10 years from one of the piano professors here). When the semester gets busy and I show up at lessons not having practiced once the entire week, I start questioning why I'm doing this to myself. Yet every Jan 1 (and this one is no exception) my resolution is to practice more. I guess it's the dream that just won't die!
Today's decision: quitting music lessons
I just quit music lessons. I'm quite relieved. Last year I started taking recorder lessons, and it was fun and I enjoyed practicing. But then my teacher moved away, and I really didn't play all summer. And it costs money; I was taking lessons at FGS's music school, so I got a discount, but still...
Also adding on to say that while many "establishment" Republican types may have said they were NeverTrump, exit polls don't quite bear that out (not does the support that he got from establishment Republican types in Congress).
Where am I going to spend my energy?
I had an epiphany this morning at temple (I know, wrong religion for epiphany) that the questions I've been struggling with (see last blog post) may come down to how we're individually channeling our emotional and intellectual energy in this post-election world. I have friends who are spending t...
Made they are bigots, but I'm not quite ready to write off the majority of people in my small town by putting them in that category.
Where am I going to spend my energy?
I had an epiphany this morning at temple (I know, wrong religion for epiphany) that the questions I've been struggling with (see last blog post) may come down to how we're individually channeling our emotional and intellectual energy in this post-election world. I have friends who are spending t...
From my perspective out here in rural Ohio, there seems to be a third type. People who identify as Republicans and were willing to overlook the horrible racist, sexist things Trump said because he was their standard bearer. The people who I live around and work with are overwhelmingly Trump people but they are certainly not ignorant or duped by false news. They also aren't out and out bigots although some may have some mildly racist views along the lines of color-blindness, etc. From what I've heard in the recent weeks, they just simply didn't care about Trumps' flaws. They feel more comfortable with Republicans in charge than Democrats. They voted for their team and many of them aren't happy that their team was led by Trump but it's still their team.
Where am I going to spend my energy?
I had an epiphany this morning at temple (I know, wrong religion for epiphany) that the questions I've been struggling with (see last blog post) may come down to how we're individually channeling our emotional and intellectual energy in this post-election world. I have friends who are spending t...
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