Lose weight. Relax more. Walk. Read more classic literature. Get eight hours of sleep a night… Each year, I resolve to do almost the exact same things. Occasionally one sticks (“apply to and quit your job for an MFA program”), but more often, they don’t (“go to the gym four times a week”). And my […]
Month: December 2012
On Sweaters and Family and Cold
I submitted my final grades for my GW students yesterday. This followed my favorite part of the class (the class being a University Writing course titled “Telling True Stories: Truth and Memory in Creative Nonfiction”), a week of readings in which my students read and discuss their process and decisions from their personal essay, the […]