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Monthly Archives: May 2012

Tucson Is for Loafers

GETTING AWAY FROM IT ALL comes with a peculiar burden for me. The before-you-go rigamarole I’m good with. It’s once I’m there, there’s this nagging compulsion to gain Meaningful Experience. Some see time away as a pause in life, but for me it’s the exact opposite. Vacation is the whole point: figuring things out, seeing [...]

New ways

WE ARE ALWAYS LEARNING. Newsy things. Cool stuff. And a fair bit that’s totally wrong. My aunt in Des Moines (a preschool teacher, which makes anything she says seem true and also positive and life-affirming) said she knew of a student named “Le-a,” pronounced with the punctuation as “Ledasha.” This killed me. Until I learned [...]