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Barbie Era

Posted on September 4, 2013 by sabasabas

Today, my students wrote about beauty. They’d been reading John Donne’s elegies, several of which are satirical poems which form a literary antithesis to Shakespeare’s sonnets. They are, in fact, hilarious: “Such are the sweat drops of my mistres’ breast, … Continue reading →

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Privacy#notanissue#

Posted on August 14, 2013 by sabasabas

  Trapwire, NEC networks, smartphones as tracking devices, drones, wiretapping, spycams…our Cowardly New World seems to know no boundaries where privacy is concerned. This morning, my students and I were discussing spying as a motif in Hamlet, and extended the … Continue reading →

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Panning Golddiggers

Posted on July 19, 2013 by sabasabas

Golddigging among the bearded, mule-packing set in Cali in the 1800s took initiative, physical stamina, and a honed ability to strategize and weigh odds. These days, it seems too many women have adopted these strategies to extract gold from the … Continue reading →

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For Shame

Posted on June 22, 2013 by sabasabas

In this Brave New World where the average facebook user meticulously reveals her lunch selection at Subway with a proud flourish worthy of a Pentagon wikileak , who can blame us for becoming desensitized to embarrassment? Vague acquaintances flood their … Continue reading →

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Hot

Posted on July 18, 2012 by sabasabas

June 9 HOT Students these days love to refer to young girls as “hot.” Hot flashes, Arizona sun, sweating in bed. It is a nefarious practice of mine during the summer if I am not traveling to “crash” the pools … Continue reading →

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Taking Your Medicine

Posted on July 18, 2012 by sabasabas

When I was seven, I dared my naïve neighbor, Paul Lumbsten, to stick a pink pencil eraser up his nose.  He not only did so, but had to have it removed at the doctor’s office. It had lodged somewhere up … Continue reading →

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