A Week in Haiku (Pt. 3) December 15, 2009

Uncategorized (the end of the week was kind of a blur)
scalding bath water
tingles and stings against my
chafed wind-burned legs
darkened morn and eve
a windowless cubicle
perpetual twilight
I have a weak chin…
new haircuts make me look like
an old lesbian
i wake refreshed… a
shockingly untraumatic
sexual dream… weird!

A Week in Haiku (Pt. 1) December 8, 2009

Saturday
Feeble winter sun
Batters itself against my
Closed, sleep-addled eyes
Ensconced in blankets
I strum my ukulele
“Shine On, Harvest Moon”
Sunday
planning my return
to academic study
is somewhat daunting
appearances lie
my brother and I are more
alike than unlike
Monday
florescent bulbs hum
as my eyes glitch and shimmer
i need tech support
how many pictures
would it take to replace a
good conversation?
If you wrote all of that in ten [...]

More on the nice/kind dichotomy April 6, 2009

I received a well-reasoned email from a friend of mine in response to my last blog-post. Since it offers a potential corrective to the views posted therein, I’ll reproduce part of it here (with her permission, of course):
I agree with the distinction but not the example. Aren’t hints how we get by? I know (gosh, [...]

Wednesday Was Word Day! April 2, 2009

[Concerning the title of this post: I was meaning to put it up yesterday... Oops!]
In evaluating the moral qualities of specific situations, Mr. Keith often makes the distinction between “kind” and “nice” – wherein “kind” refers to actual interest in the well-being of the other individual and “nice” describes the attempt to follow social conventions [...]

Wednesday is Word Day! February 11, 2009

I think I have a new favorite word: “disabuse.” It is used to describe the process of ridding people (or oneself) of incorrect beliefs and attitudes (e.g., “He was considering taking homeopathic remedies to avoid getting malaria, but I quickly disabused him of this notion”). I became taken with this term when I started thinking [...]