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Vice Presidential Fantasies

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Finally, a vice presidential candidate I could see myself sleeping with. O sure, there was Walter Mondale–Wally–who fired my loins as a young man. I touched his hand–once, fleetingly–in a hotel ballroom in Louisville, Kentucky. I will never forget that day. He looked down at me with those soft midwestern peepers, and I could hardly [...]

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Two Worlds: Mind and Body

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »

Occasionally I arrive in the classroom bruised and battered, with a fat lip or a purple eye. A limp. An inability to raise my arm above my head without wincing. Sometimes stooped with a back spasm.
I haven’t been grading papers, or preparing for class, or lecturing, or flitting through aethereal realms: I’ve been fighting. Mostly, [...]

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