Tag: writing

  • Getting Back at People or Solving a Problem to Make the World a Better Place: Empathy

    Getting Back at People or Solving a Problem to Make the World a Better Place: Empathy

    My husband and I have a problem where we live: our accents. We can’t hide the fact that we are from the North.  We have another problem: unlike most of the other residents in North Carolina, we are bleeding-heart liberal Democrats. In a town as small as ours, as soon as Trump was re-elected, we…

  • POOP MACHINES

    This morning, my beloved husband passed his gastroenterology procedure with flying colors. He is good for another ten years, in theory. We live in a small community, and it took all of fourteen minutes to drive from our home and walk through the lobby doors of our hospital this morning. Our hospital is a modern…

  • Poetry, Eve as Hero

    Poetry, Eve as Hero

    One semester I taught a course on poetry.  Each day I handed out copies of the poems we would discuss the next class, and I encouraged my students to mark them up and when we had the discussion the next class day to keep taking notes.  There is an Adam and Eve Poem tradition in…