college years

We arrived in Jerusalem a sunset and a sunrise before the sabbath, and oh was it good to eat supper and bring our bags to the room upstairs. We stayed at Christ Church, a place with a long history and … Continued

As mentioned briefly in the last post, I went to Israel. About sixteen students went for about two weeks. We began our journey in the Negev, the sweaty place, the South, the desert, the wilderness. Since night had fallen long … Continued

Someone at David’s baby shower on December 13 asked me when I had gotten back. Back to the country? Back to school? Back from Thanksgiving break? I had been to Colorado before, but never to that chidrens’ hospital, so I … Continued

I am done with another semester, another season in another place, but it doesn’t seem that time has passed. Thanks to air conditioning, the air felt just this cold when I got here. I have so few entries to add … Continued

I’m squeezing snow into heel-shaped wafersas blank-flavored as this air, from which all impurities have fallenbecause it is so cold. The far away is louder than the nearbecause it is so quiet here.The only sound is squeaking, squeezing snow.

Professor Vallone keeps saying that I am a researcher, but I’m pretty sure that I am an old woman reading poetry on the porch of her cabin in the mountains. I must go there to meet her. Country road, take … Continued

It’s easiest to see the scars when it’s cold. One is on my left hand, on the middle knuckle. Sometime while I was lugging my luggage from Heathrow to my hostel the handle of the rolling one took off a … Continued

I promise to be in bed in an hour, which might work out to be right around the sugar low of the giant bowl of ice cream that I just ate. It was for the election. Ice cream is the … Continued

I saw it snow today. First time since the night I sat behind the wing and watched them de-ice the plane as we counted down the last ten seconds before 2008. I’ve seen snow since then– that mountain range somewhere … Continued