Tasmanian Devils

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Originally uploaded by A writer afoot Since I can’t figure out any other way to do it, and I’m stuck waiting for a plane out of Ayers Rock, here’s the photo that should go with the Devils [...]

Chapter 342, wherein our heroine at last arrives in Melbourne

Might be a bit too jetlagged to blog properly, but here is a photo for you. 

 

 

Melbourne skyline last night.  Very pretty downtown, shiny skycrapers and towers of offices. 

 

 

 

 

And another photo, the first foodie pic:

 

I’m not sure what it is, but pretty, no?

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Where expectation is still pure

Two days to go before I leave for Australia. What are my goals? What are my expectations?

Goals: To take great photos. To look for those excellent, beautiful, telling things that will illuminate the experience for me, and for you.

To be like a sponge, wide open and without judgment, and absorb absolutely everything [...]

Santa Barbara Harbor and the girls in the basement

For the past three days, as I showered, or chatted with a student or another writer, or walked from one hotel to the other, the girls in the basement have kept up a little series of nudges.  “Now? Can we come out and talk now?”  

Teaching, however, takes a lot of heart energy, mind [...]

Standing still

On our last morning in New York, I took a quick look around, at the black and white wallpaper and the framed vintage magazine prints and the chandaliers made of plastic beads and thought, as I did several times over our stay,  “I wish I could stay in this happy moment a little bit [...]

The Unbearable Excitement

So, I haven’t been here much. I’m teaching a couple of classes, writing quite a few essays and articles, and plotting out the new book. Feeling exasperated that I still haven’t had a training walk. Sunday, the weather was miserable again–not awful, just that blustery cold that makes you (me) want to kill someone [...]