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Guess who's online! ...Again!

Well, a lot of exciting things are happening, so guess who's going to blog about them! Except not now, I'm still on vacation.Cheers and happy 2013!

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Article 12

This post is for my benefit; when I start blogging it's an uninterrupted deluge of everything I have to say until there is absolutely nothing left. When there is nothing left, I stop blogging for a...

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How to Fly Like a Samurai: Packing

We're a week from lift-off as of this evening, and I have so much to do it's silly. I can cross haircut off that list, but root touch-up (guess who's a blond now?), currency exchange, some mailings,...

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Tomorrow

I leave tomorrow.I still have plenty to do. Not all my things are packed, the roots of my hair are still garishly brown, my laundry will never be done, but ready or not, tomorrow is coming. The most I...

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In Between at the Top of the World

At least, it's the farthest north I've ever been. Two classmates and I left JFK last night around 6 and landed in Helsinki at 9 Finland time, or 2 in the morning back home. They gave us ham sandwiches...

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Two Things to Remember

Warning: This post is long. Whoa Mama, it's long.There are two things I have learned, and two things I will always remember.In Rome, there is an art to everything.Be a writer. So it's been a long week,...

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Death By Public Transportation

I realize now why there is a hospital along every bus route and tram line in this city: public transportation is a death trap. Last Sunday my phone was stolen along tram 8, and last night I absolutely...

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If I've Made It Sound All Bad...

If somehow I've made Rome sound all terrible and disastrous, it isn't. It seems the only time I have a moment to sit and write something is when something is going terrible wrong and I've unleashed a...

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Plans Have Changed

I came to Rome with only a few plans:Go to Bar S. Callisto, a haunt for students from the dawn of this program. Go to Poland for Spring Break, lick the salt mines, weep at Auschwitz, and visit...

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I've Been Published! (Among Other Things)

Okay. A lot has gone down since I last wrote, which is why I wrote so long ago and nothing since, but perhaps the most pertinent to the life of my writing is......I have been published!Okay, I've been...

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Rome Journal!

So while I wasn't all up on blogging this semester, I have had to keep a journal every day from our first tour to Easter Sunday. I'm in the process of putting all the entries online, so if you're...

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Save Your Work

I've been thinking a lot about the distinctly human need to document things. Birds don't really think about their different nests when they migrate north and south; they don't remember the aspen in...

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The Rome Trilogy

Though for no good or particular reason I've stalled in transcribing my daily Rome journal, the three articles I wrote for my school's blog and newsletter have all been published:A Glimpse of Rome ---...

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In The Meantime

Coming home for the summer means (surprise) coming home. Coming back to the place that knows you, loves you, and has all of your embarrassing baby photos in a desk drawer somewhere. To the place where...

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Don't Let This Fading Summer Pass You By

My relationship with summer is a sincere love-hate deal. I've been burned before.No, for real. My skin introduces a new standard of fair: white to red to blistered to white. No tan. Not even...

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Foiled Again! ....Or Am I?

The very story that prompted me to start my Garden Notebook (thanks for the nifty little nomen, Kat!) has thwarted my efforts in it. What a strange story: I love it, I refuse to bury it, but every time...

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