Over the years, we’ve visited a handful of midwestern cities from our home outside of Chicago. This year, we had one week in between my younger kid’s two summer camps, so we decided to visit Minneapolis-Saint Paul. A six-hour drive mostly on I-90, it was far enough to feel like we were getting away and … Continue reading American city – notes from a road trip
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Paris is a Palimpsest
After we’d been dating for about a year, my boyfriend, a graduate student of comparative literature at a nearby university in southern California, got a fellowship to study in Paris for the year, and I received a dissertation fellowship from my English department, freeing me from teaching obligations. To save money, I returned home to … Continue reading Paris is a Palimpsest
Zumba styles
After two weeks off for family travel, I returned to my usual Zumba class last weekend only to find a substitute teaching the class. I admit it threw me off a bit. In the five months or so that I’d been going to the weekly Zumba class, I’d only ever had one instructor. Now here … Continue reading Zumba styles
Road trips revisted: point/counterpoint
Soon, we’ll be taking a road trip to the Northeast with the kids to visit friends and family. This seemed a good time to reprise these two blog posts about road trips from July 2006, one from me and one from my spouse. Although we wrote these a couple years before we started our family … Continue reading Road trips revisted: point/counterpoint
Qatar Travelogue
These were originally written as a series of Facebook posts when I traveled to Doha, Qatar with the Dean of my school to discuss a joint venture with a satellite campus there. Lightly edited for the blog. September 6-11, 2018 DepartureArrival Entry #1: Holy shit, I’m in Qatar! Never expected to have an opportunity to … Continue reading Qatar Travelogue
Contrary Frog 