Days 93-99

Almost at one hundred days! As is no doubt clear from my recent paucity of posts, the balance between mommying, teaching and being a student has been tipping me dangerously away from my studies. I have been trying to play catch up this week, after the children's spring break, two dentist visits, two doctor visits, hubby's birthday, and numerous other small items pertaining to life with two bubbly, crazily energetic small children.

Have read Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" and Coetzee's "Disgrace," along with Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," all amazing. So many other books piled up beside my bed. I also started watching the "Seven & Up" series on DVD -- powerful and helpful reminders of the England of my childhood.

I'm writing about my time two summers ago teaching on the Upward Bound program for first generation college students. It's a traumatic tale in a quite different realm from my grandmother's death. The words just keep tumbling out, which is thrilling and exhausting, too.

So, upward!