Photograph by Mary Kocol, found in today’s New Yorker Photobooth collection We went to Lake Dunmore today. A nice cool dip, lots of sun, kids playing baseball and our kind of football, Vermont soft serve ice cream. Nothing more American!
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Life Doesn’t Come with Subtitles
Middlebury College, Vermont — in the summer it becomes a campus for the ten language immersion schools 7/2/2010 I’m breaking the rules writing in English. This “No English” rule is pretty effective — I’m even dreaming about having to say things in Spanish. Classes are mentally invigorating yet physically tiring. I went to bed yesterdayContinue reading “Life Doesn’t Come with Subtitles”
Returning Home
“A person’s heart is like a deep well. Nobody knows what lies at the bottom. We can only imagine what there might be by contemplating the form of the things which, once in a while, come to the surface.” Haruki Murakami, “Airplane” 6/24/2010 Back on the other side of the ‘charco.’ I was surprised atContinue reading “Returning Home”
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