Your Neck of the Woods

As far as Readings go:

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Sunday, 9/26 -- Jones/jubilat reading featuring Lucy Ives and Steve Healy. 3 pm, Jones Library, Amherst

Wednesday, 9/29 -- Green Street Cafe Reading, 7:30, Green Street Cafe, Northampton

Thursday, 9/30 -- Bernadette Mayer Reading, Alumni Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts, 8pm

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At first I thought to myself: "I will never write another blog post. 95 percent of them out in the world make me cringe." And that worked for about a year. And then somehow I decided to keep that opinion alive and also restart this blog. The human mind is a mysterious thing.
Also, after setting up this new layout, I spent a good 4 days thinking that I wouldn't write another blog post, mainly because I had nothing to say. And then Saturday came. And I had a day's worth of work to do. So of course, procrastination directly leads to blog posts. And I vow to try and stay true to what I like about blogs.

So here it is: A post where I write about the Today Show.





I love it. I would ask, "Who doesn't?" but history always tells me there's someone that breaks my heart by telling me how much they hate it. It was always a signal in my school years that I should start getting ready because the bus would be there in 10 minutes. And now, being the relatively new early riser that I am, I spend most of my mornings with my eyes glued to first: Meredith, Matt, Al and Ann (and Natalie), then straight onto Kathie Lee and Hoda.

I'm nosy. I want to know what people are doing. I love to humanize celebrities, learn about high school quarterback heroes, watch a farm town revive itself after the recession. I love happy endings. I love humanism. I love to get involved in other people's stories. I don't think there's a simpler way to say that.

Why not be silly? Why not care about things? Why not watch a story where a dog fosters a piglet, or where a Colombian woman is free after being trapped in the jungle for years?

So much for a good first blog post. I may be rusty.

My students are reading Dorothea Lasky's Awe. We are discussing "voice" in detail on Monday. "I! LOVED! IT!" was what many of the happy readers said in class on Friday. And I think that's about as good as it gets, don't you?