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Rollin' on the River

It started out fairly well. We reached the trailhead parking lot around noon to find it still half-empty. Jessie and I then proceeded to work our 70-lb aluminum canoe down the portage trail--first with it full of gear,…
Why You Have To Go And Make Things So Complicated?

I don't want to go back for more school. I don't want to go around on my hands and knees trying to sell myself, begging for employers to hire me. I'm sick of academia and I want to walk away from it, maybe forever. I'…
Ne þæt se aglæca yldan þohte

I just finished watching the CGI-animated movie Beowulf. It's crude, with people fighting nekkid, low-cut blouses, sexual innuendos in song form ("Her mother was from Iceland..."), frequent use of the word "swive," gore…
I want

I want my students to get something out of the classes I teach, instead of just trying for the minimal passing grade... I want my students to start digging when they encounter something they don't understand, rather tha…
Going Forth

Þe knyȝt mad ay god chere, And sayde, 'Quat schuld I wonde? Of destinés derf and dere What may mon do bot fonde? --Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (The knight was cheerful and said, "What should I fear? Whether destiny …
Blecch

The man I interviewed with was practically a clone of J. Jonah Jameson. If he had started demanding that I go out and get incriminating photos of Spiderman, I don't think I would have been surprised. He made it very cl…
Dandelion Wine

Fathomless your endless mercy, Weight I could not lift. Where do I fit in this puzzle? What good are these gifts? Not a martyr, or a saint. Scarcely can I struggle through. All that I have ever wanted Was to give my best…
Transitions

"I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again. Now the circle is complete. When we last left I was but the learner. Now I have a Master's." "Only a Master's in English, Darth!" *sigh* Anyone hiring …
"It would take more than a few days... of wandering in the Wild to make you look like Strider."

Just got back from my primitive camping trip in the Catskills! There ended up being only three of us. There was me, in my Ranger gear whenever I could (but not during the hikes in and out). There was Chris P, …
Wild At Heart, Sore Of Legs

"We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. I may never get there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope: without it the…