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Travels with GenX -- Finally

My husb and I did not grow up blessed with international travel. Husb stayed in a motel with his parents precisely once. It was the Bluebird Motel in Claresholm, Alberta and it lasted as long as it took for their car to be repaired. My family did travel all over Canada and the US, always by car and almost always as part of a grueling long distance move.  In our 20s — prime backpacking age — husb…

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This is not a Eulogy: Un-Useful Tips at the End of My Degree

My regalia and my sensible shoes. I keep trying to write about the seven year project of earning a doctorate in my 40s, but it keeps lapsing into a eulogy – a sober retrospective, a farewell, a melodramatic coda. And though a melodramatic coda wouldn’t be false, it’s not what I want to say.  What I want to say is that I’m grateful, still tired, changed, etc., and that I was happy all along. My…

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Of the 90s, but not in the 90s

Of the 90s, but not in the 90s

I’m teaching English 111, Introduction to Literature and Composition Part I, degree requirement basics. It’s not at my usual university, bleeding funding and scholars. I’m at a small school overlooking Wayne Gretzky Drive, built out of brick by tall Lutheran men, furnished with wooden lecterns too tall for me to see over. It’s a secular university now, but in a little-used courtyard there’s a…

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We're Here, Because We're Here, Because...

We’re Here, Because We’re Here, Because…

So my son typed my name into Google and I was the top result. Too legit. Can’t let that slip away so here I am, still posting, still writing, and still alive, which is not nearly as glib of a comment as it once was. Happy 2022, the year a plan to defend my dissertation, finish the manuscript I’ve been calling “my unhinged creative project,” and teach this class at the University of Alberta called…

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Sound on 🔊

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We're making a gallery wall in the living room for my birthday and haven't found anything for this frame yet, so as a placeholder, I printed out one of my fave Chinese sayings. #goodadvice #wisdom #4character #poetry #anglosofinstagram #nobodysgonnaknow #theyregonnaknow #howwouldtheyknow #gonnaknow #water #studychinese #homedecortips https://www.instagram.com/p/CN8NnhMnpgB/?igshid=55wi2dh1mk4b

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Me in my feelings again. Ya warned. AQ had a tickle in his throat last night so he dragged out this mattress and slept on the floor. My vaccine needs time to set, he's been essential working in public all month, and as ever-compassionate Janine told me from her hospital bed, “how would you survive this???" So moving, my family's little sacrifices all this time, avoiding a virus they would probably survive just fine. If they wanted to get a new lady with a better extended warranty, maybe who liked cooking... These are common sick people thoughts. "How astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed," says Virginia. Yes, and then, here, in a heap of sheets, to have them proven wrong. #covidfamilylife #covid19 #quarantine #covidmarriage #compassionatemarriage #tryingtoreachyouaboutyourextendedwarranty #marriedlife #virginiawoolf #jinnyandjenny #tuesdaydearest #heavygram #inmyfeelings #publichope #pda #gettheshot #getusout https://www.instagram.com/p/CNvCy2MnulM/?igshid=1bv13ahe221e

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Mumma playing Peek-A-Boo with her babies!

(via SEherkirt)

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If domestic housewives exist, that implies there are feral housewives

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bastard’s degree

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Um, this is me as a grad student teacher giving pop culture zoom lectures from home.

me walking around my room talking outloud to myself about my current obsessions and giving my imaginary audience an hours long speech about it

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Teaching Junji Ito's Frankenstein manga the day after an anaphylactic reaction like... 🤣🤣 So glad to have teaching to move me along. #frankensteinhadadoctoratetoo #onward #doctoroflitlife #phdlife #gradlife #litfixeseverything #crohnsforcrones #autoimmunedisease #gettinitdone #worktherapy #manga #maryshelleylove #horrorlit https://www.instagram.com/p/CKzEgMEDgUE/?igshid=1qmrrgscyhyay

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I uhhh... did a thing

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