Saturday, February 24, 2018

All the little sibs fell asleep

(all of them *on* me) before 
At got home for Spring Break
(after Model UN-ing it in the Lou).

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Friday, February 23, 2018

Cresting

Red Cedar River, East Lansing

I started on a long walk, but the music (my phone) died
and too many roads were blocked off,
so I headed back home.

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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Four years

...since we brought Huckleberry Abhaya D-L home.
She's still a baby puppy and still runs her sibs ragged. 

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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

#MeToo MMRP

MacCurdy House put on their production of MMRP, and I was a proud mama even though I hadn't actually done anything but sign the form for supplies and such. I love my young feminists a little more than I love all my students. The #MeToo cards are going up all around campus later this month.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

When people don't call me out on my whining...

It makes me think I actually have something to be worried about :/ 

3 hrs

This foggy, rainy day isn't helping my blues: (i) I'm home with a sick Nu (ii) At is about to board a plane wearing his beautiful brown skin and his proud beard and looking like Trump's nightmare (iii) the Parkland kids are making me cry/rage (iv) At is headed for St. Louis, so Michael Brown is on my mind a bit more than usual.

A Diamond Birthday in D.C.

My M.I.L. was so excited when I sent her the link to the NYT article on the Minè Okubo exhibition in the Smithsonian. Given the family conne...