I pack my life in stages; final conference and the suit goes in the suitcase, final classes, in go the work clothes. Final parties, toss in my earrings and heels; all the trappings of my small-town urban life boxed and shipped.
I’m left with my raggedest, ill-fitting, badly matched summer survival gear, sandals, a bottle of […]
Tuesday was the day I’ve been anticipating for awhile, ever since I watched the solemn goodbyes of leaving teachers, my first spring here at school.
I knew Speech Marathon Day was coming, so Monday I begged R-chan to help me translate my thoughts. I told her stories, and if she laughed, I had her tell it […]
An article on remystifying the orgasm in response to a book:
It’s not that the sexual revelations and revolutions of the recent past have not brought considerable good. It’s great that men know more about women’s bodies than they did, great they no longer imagine, like the cad in Milan Kundera’s 1972 novel The Joke, that […]
On Thursday I will finish my final lesson at school, and that will be it for my eigo-no-sensei career. I’ve been making stabs at packing and preliminary sorting, but recently it’s gotten so fucking hot that I can barely think.
This week and next will be packed with goodbye parties, making arrangements for the family trip, […]