*contrary to popular belief, this is not what Sally Field said when she won the Academy Award in 1985 (her second) for “Places in the Heart.” She actually said: “…I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”
In any case, somebody out there likes me. Or, likes my writing project. [...]

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I’m a baby. I’m a mess when i’m sick. I hate being sick.
<–remember Sniffles?!
I’m not really that sick but I have a bad code cold. I’m all congested, my head feels
like it’s going to expwode explode. I’m sniffling, sneezing. Blowing my nobe nose all day.
Thankfully, i’m not really feeling too terrible, just stuffed up, [...]

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I’m back teaching now– two classes that I absolutely love: Advanced Composition and Introduction to Creative Writing. Thus i’ve been a bit lax on posting the last few days, sorry! But i’ll get back into the swing of it by the end of the week.
Just some quick notes for now.
Joined Goodreads– so cool to see [...]

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Jennifer Jones starred in a 1949 film of the novel, directed by Vincente Minelli.
I’m currently reading Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
It’s slow going, though I do like it. I haven’t read a classic book in a long time– what was the last one I read? I can’t even remember. Maybe The Catcher in [...]

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*B. Manilow (special nod to Lola)
HAPPY NEW YEAR
I know, i’m a little late. We got back this morning at 12:30 a.m. from Cincinnati.
We had a nice time.
Ate too much (Ted’s mom is a fabulous cook). Not to mention she had the best gifts for us. My stocking was stuffed with books (JM Coetzee’s new [...]

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**Wrote two pages at the coffee shop today. Starting to feel like the coffee shop might not be the best place for me to write. Maybe to revise or edit, but not when I really need my brain and my concentration. I’ll try the library at UCSD again next week after our mini-vay-cay. 
We’re going to [...]

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Tonight poet/novelist Eileen Myles is speaking/reading at one of the colleges where I teach. we’re very excited to have her, and i’m pretty interested to see how my students (and the other students) respond to her out in East County San Diego…
About Her: EILEEN MYLES [...]

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So, continuing with the “Bewitched” theme (it is almost Halloween, after all), I gave a reading last night at the San Diego Writer’s Ink/Ink Spot with several of my fellow Creative Writing Instructors from one of the colleges where I teach.
The story I read is called “Bothered, Bewildered” and was published last year in a [...]

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Whew! I’m beat. Long week.
So, my Tues. night writing class came to an end. It was a truly great experience for me.
It was as if a (ok, how many cliches can I come up with here?) door had been opened, a weight had been lifted off of my shoulders, a light appeared at the end [...]

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Thank you all for such a warm welcome back to the blogosphere.
This weekend i’ve been pretty housebound– not sure why. laziness? tired?
It’s probably more that i’m preparing for the storm… I start teaching at UCSD this week–two nights a week and two mornings, and in between those night and mornings i’m teaching at the [...]

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