Only You

 

Gambrill State Park, west of Frederick, Maryland.  Lots of nice hiking trails yet to be discovered.

"It's a big black sky over my town"

 

Robyn and David Byrne, "Dancing On My Own"

A musical bright spot in an otherwise dismal 2025. 

"I wanna ride on the Ferris wheel"

Kim Deal, "Disobedience"

I'm really enjoying the new Kim Deal solo album.  More Breeders than Pixies, with some nice curveballs thrown in (Latin horns, anyone?)

Now it's Kelly's turn?

Feel The Spirit

 

Browsed at the always amazing Wonderbooks in Frederick, Maryland.

Blue Apple

Frederick, Maryland.

Job Stuff

I started a new job last week and it's going really well.  After 12 years teaching ESL in South Korea, and various other things along the way (substituting, tutoring, composition teaching in graduate school) I think part of me will always think of myself as a teacher, or an ex-teacher.

I'm also certain that thousands of years ago, sitting around the in-cave fire, the cave-people elders were complaining about the young folks.  But something really does seem to have changed -- so much unnecessary drama, the occasional death threat from a second grader, the addiction to cell phones -- in terms of what a teacher's job is supposed to be now.

I'll say more soon but it's nice to go into work and not have to hear any screaming, or any n- or f-bombs.