Dental work is unnatural, even when surrounde...

December 31, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Dental work is unnatural, even when surrounded by family. Jennifer was wonderful to arrange time in her dental office. Dad heroically filled my four cavities. I’ve scraped the crusted blood from my forehead (how does it get everywhere?) and am waiting for the feeling that I got punched in the face to subside. Like most teeth surgery, it feels like torture for the first twelve hours but I feel fine in the morning. And at least I can tell my dentist that I hate him without him taking it too personally.

In a moment of weakness this week when I shou...

December 12, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

In a moment of weakness this week when I should have been writing, I made stockings for 34 Appleton Street.

The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforc...

December 12, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and I are officially finished with each other! You know, all that "tough" rhetoric was sexy at first, but let me tell you- in the end, punitive prison policies make horrible bedfellows. I'm starting packing (and reading all of Seraph's wonderful books) right now.

I just turned in my statistics final, the Jap...

December 11, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I just turned in my statistics final, the Japanese American assets paper is out of my hands tomorrow, and then its just me and the 1994 crime bill. Home stretch!

I wish I could be there, too! I'm afraid that...

November 26, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I wish I could be there, too! I'm afraid that I'll be spending my Thanksgiving writing papers.

Dad! You're becoming a community organizer! I...

November 15, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Dad! You're becoming a community organizer! I couldn't be happier.

I haven't yet mentioned the best thing about ...

November 14, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I haven't yet mentioned the best thing about Waltham. Russo's is where restaurants and regular folks go to buy the most beautiful produce in the greater Boston area. I go in for onions and come out with kohlrabi, local snap peas, and a lust for vegetables. In fact, seven percent of my total happiness can be attributed to Russo's, holding constant the weather, my workload, and how many parking tickets I have lodged in my windshield. The second best thing about Waltham, or more particularly, about going to Brandeis, is that you never have to cook for yourself on Fridays. Due to hachnasat orchim, I get to be the grateful recipient of Shabbat hospitality. As long as I can find street parking in Somerville.

For the last few days, I've been spending my ...

November 07, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

For the last few days, I've been spending my time licking the dust off horse stalls in War Relocation Camps at the foot of the Sierra Nevadas and trying to interpret it into income data for Japanese Americans in the 1980s. It's been interesting research, but consuming and less than joyful. So tonight I was taken to a Decembrists concert to stand for hours with my boots stuck to dried beer. The band threw a full sized Barack Obama cut-out into the audience to lovingly crowd surf, and we chanted, in response to the lead singer's cry of "Yes We Can" with "Yes We Did!" There was a buoyancy to the event, a unity and hopefulness about the future. As we got up to leave, sweaty and happy, I realized that sometime during the concert, someone had unsnapped my jacket pocket and taken my wallet.

I have a presentation on crime and the prison system tomorrow. Life is funny that way.

I woke up to NPR using the words "president e...

November 05, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I woke up to NPR using the words "president elect Obama" this morning, and the world felt more hopeful. Particularly for my career in public policy.

Ah, class with macs

October 24, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Ah, class with macs.

I thought that I was just busy because of mid-terms, but I think "mid-terms" was a way for me to believe that the pace of school would eventually slacken. That just isn't the case; mid-terms have opened up into group projects and final research papers. I'm writing an interesting paper on the affects of U.S. public policy on Japanese American asset accumulation and facilitating a class on prison policy. If you have any suggestions for a history paper, I'm fishing for a topic.

While I'm still a little busy to give you any...

October 18, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

While I'm still a little busy to give you anything close to Robbie's full, beautiful prose about our anniversary in the Pioneer Valley, I can give you a schedule of our weekend, which near saved my life. It was three weeks ago and I'm still living on the memory of the Smith greenhouse and perfect fall weather.

Friday
5:30-6:00 visited Amherst Essentials and bought a big blue poster with a stylized guillotine on it that says "Paris 1789" in flowery letters.
7:00 Dinner at Judy's

Saturday
7:30 dutch baby baked pancakes
9-10 Top of Mt. Holyoke
10-11 Apple picking
11-12:30 Eric Carle Picture Book Museum
12:30-3:20 Montague Book Mill
3:30 Procured free Schwinn bike by the side of the road
3:40-5:30 Walked the Northampton strip
5:30-9:30 Dinner and Erin McKeown at the Iron Horse

Sunday
Frittata breakfast
Smith College greenhouse
Country drive home

The rusty Schwinn is still in my trunk and backseat, waiting for new tires and a coat of paint, but I'm hopeful that I'll get to it before the first snow.

Cheers, dad! More to come (once midterms h...

October 13, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Cheers, dad!

More to come (once midterms have passed).

I'm in the midst of mid-terms: writing a pape...

October 08, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I'm in the midst of mid-terms: writing a paper on William Jennings Bryan (known by one of his biographies as "A Godly Hero," but better known as the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Oz) for history, slogging through a Social Frameworks take home that is more a test of will than intellect, and preparing for a presentation in Assets.

I have found myself coordinating the re-surveying of a low-income neighborhood in Waltham (of which I am a resident) to procure federal funds for affordable housing. While I swore that I wouldn't ever labor without pay again, I foolishly replied to an email from a professor desperate to get the project off her plate. I may also be helping form the new MPP student association's community service committee because I opened my big mouth during a meeting and said, "I think we should call it the 'Community Partnerships for Social Justice Committee,' so our mission is explicit in the name." As I've found working at colleges, anyone with that much opinion in a meeting is quickly co-opted into leadership. Sigh.

Due to some of these stresses, among others, I can just barely sleep- this from a woman who has, like every good Miller, fallen asleep at 10:30 pm every night no matter the circumstances. I'm sure I'll snap out of it in a month or two.

The autumn is beautiful here; I'm going to Northampton this weekend and Williamstown at the end of the month to leaf peep a bit. Hopefully, I'll do some apple picking and canning soon.

Oh, mom, I'm so glad you're starting Sam on t...

September 23, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Oh, mom, I'm so glad you're starting Sam on theory early. I often think of you as the source of my interest in organizing philosophies, beginning with Campbell and Jung. Kids should be taught Marx, Weber, and Durkheim in middle school, just to start getting a handle on critical analysis. The first leg of school is nearly over- October begins the high holidays, and we get some respite from this month's grueling pace.

Hopefully I'll get to go to the Fluff Festival this weekend, celebrating the creation of Marshmallow Fluff in 1917 by Archibald Query. Bostonians eat peanut butter and fluff sandwiches as children- that's fluff boy. Weirdos.

Graduate school

September 09, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Graduate school. We've been reading about welfare policies' affect on de-commodification of labor, and all I can think about is how wonderfully exempt I am from the market as I sip my tea and read hundreds and hundreds of pages of social policy. The program is also woefully disconnected from the community, so I don't even have to enact change! The mission of the program, "Education Forwarding Social Justice," means forwarding social justice... once you've read more Locke. The best thing about my classes is the wealth of experience from my fellow classmates, who have been policy analysts, researchers, and program directors. They make going to class interesting.

We are in the middle of September storm season, the only time that Waltham looks like Eugene. The perfect day to settle in with a good book and think about the fact that I've now read more social policy that Governor Palin has in her political career.

One of the nice things about vacationing loca...

August 15, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

One of the nice things about vacationing locally is that one doesn't feel the pressure to do everything that only exists here in paradise, and conversely, to abandon everything that smacks of home. Greg's family is sitting in the living room of a condo in Provincetown, reading political blogs and mystery books (Jane has recently discovered that her angsty novel involves a literal skeleton in the closet, and Greg is reading the Anatomy of Fascism, which is a mystery to me). The weather is overcast, so I'm agitating for swimming (the beach to yourself and no worries of burning!). That's not yet the household consensus. Chances are better that I can drag everyone down to the dozens of galleries a block down from this place. The condo itself is a kind of gallery, tasteful in every way, each wall hung with paintings that inspire but couldn't possibly overwhelm the well-composed decor. Once I can afford this kind of place myself, I'm only going to rent from gayplaces2rent.com.

I also have some work to do, which I may have a crack at... right after a second cup of coffee.

For the first time in five years, I have a we...

August 07, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

For the first time in five years, I have a week off at home. In fact, I have three weeks. I feel like the joyful newlyweds in Beetlejuice, pre tragic death, cleaning up and doing projects, happy for full stretches of days to get my affairs in order and set up job, home, and school details. I'm avoiding quaint bridges, just in case.

Things are not all fun and games; I have health insurance, tuition, a broken exhaust pipe, internets, and two graduate jobs to think about before orientation on the 25th. But I did squeeze in a Princess Bride Quote Along at the Coolidge Corner Theatre last night. Awesome.

Today is my very last day in the office

July 17, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Today is my very last day in the office. I'll be at a close of service event tomorrow, at a pre-service orientation training next week (my fifth July in Beverly, MA- it all feels full-circle at this point), and in Atlanta for my last week of service. It will be such a relief to get to August, settle in and have some breathing room to do the little things like fix my grotesque exhaust leak and get health insurance.

One of the things on my to-do list for the last six months, in preparation for school, was to buy a new laptop. And that is what I am typing on right now. It is absurdly fancy, and I got a free ipod touch and printer with it. I don't really know what to do with myself, hating technology and all. I just finished the last meal that I will ever eat at this desk. All our plates are in boxes at home, so I'm hand to mouth with bagels and burritos for another few days.

This weekend is my friend Morgan's wedding, t...

July 09, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

This weekend is my friend Morgan's wedding, to none other than my favorite high school math tutor, Josh. Not only is it an absolute joy to see the two of them so happy together, and to bear witness to such a perfect match, but it's basically going to be an awesome high school reunion. Morgan and I ran in the same crowd in high school and I met lots of her college friends when I visited her for Thanksgiving or for her most fantastic Vagina Monologue production (she was the tax lawyer turned dominatrix). Josh's friends are all people I wish I had been friends with. Alas, I was a little too shy to chill with the kids that were reading the same science fiction and fantasy that I secretly read. Anna is flying in from San Francisco to be my guest to the wedding, and we've spent many phone conversations discussing how to match without matching.

Which leads me to the challenge of this whole beautiful shindig. Morgan asked me to read an Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet in the service, and while I was planning to wear a short blue babydoll dress that I already own, it was far too short for a windy outdoor wedding in and reading a poem in front of grandparents. And, like many of the Miller women, the beatings on my legs whisper hemophiliac. No one want to see that kind of bruising at a wedding. So I bought a longer dress. But it wasn't going to match with any shoes I have left in Rhode Island (I faintly recall other shoes, that I carefully boxed and moved to Waltham, thinking "when will I ever need a pair of heels?"). Living in a city with a three-story, carpeted mall, one could hypothetically find a pair of shoes in an evening. Yet three hours and two-six trips to every store with women's shoes in the Providence Place Mall, my credit card lay untouched. Quite flustered, I called Seraph, who advised red and shiny, and it only took an hour to find shiny red shoes and a matching clutch the next day. Thank God for having a fashion designer in the family. Who needs a doctor in he family, when we can always have advice on how to look of the moment?

One of the things I've enjoyed about living i...

July 02, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

One of the things I've enjoyed about living in Providence is the thriving local food community. In addition to my own foray into vegetable gardening in a community garden, which offers its own social and edible benefits, I live on a park with a Thursday farmer's market. It's not San Francisco, with cheap, plentiful, perfect produce lining the entire block, but it's intimate and enough for the few days I can manage to sit down and eat at my own table. I'm also an avid ready of Edible Rhody, which included my friend's cheese company, Naragansett Creamery, in it's spring issue. I want to eat every issue, which I think is the idea of food magazines. It's a bit different than Gourmet, which has a smugness that sours the pure love of eating good food.

I'm traveling again, and I cannot possibly wa...

June 23, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I'm traveling again, and I cannot possibly wait for a day when I can buy groceries and not worry about them rotting in my refrigerator. Next week...

However, the meeting I'm taking part in is very interesting. I'm learning quite a lot about the language and ways of foundations, research, and the disconnect between researchers and practitioners. The meeting is a wonderful avenue for me to think more deeply about the questions that civic engagement researchers and practitioners grapple with. The hotel is also freakin' amazing, as I have a sixteenth floor corner suite.

Here are my new heirloom tomatoes, just ready...

June 10, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Here are my new heirloom tomatoes, just ready to go out with the rest of my garden!

The coolest gift I've gotten so far: a reprod...

June 09, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

The coolest gift I've gotten so far: a reproduction WWI lighter. Very steampunk.

My garden is exploding with radishes, cilantro, lettuce, and baby spinach. Glad to know that this 90 degree weather is good for somebody. I spent all weekend in south county by the beach, as far away from my third story apartment as possible.

Have you noticed that Sam has this great side...

May 14, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Have you noticed that Sam has this great sidebar called "gift ideas" on his page? Why don't we all have that? In the meantime, I'll have to post my birthday list here:

A donation to StoryCorps.

A timer, travel toothbrush, wooden cutting board, or anything else from Muji (www.muji.eu)

Two items from Liberation Ink (www.liberationink.org):
Support the Intifada: women's large
Without Justice: Fair Trade Organic Tote

Global Exchange sweat shop free sneakers in women's 9.5. Yes, I've been wearing these same sneakers for more than two years, because they just don't make low tops in chocolate anymore.

Prints from Etsy (www.etsy.com, this one is from johnwgolden)

A cast iron pan and pot, preferably vintage.

With the loss of three staff members, my job ...

May 13, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

With the loss of three staff members, my job has taken a dramatic shift from institutionalizing a national VISTA program to assisting and event planning. There seems to be some assumption that, because I am at the bottom of the office totem pole, I know how to file receipts and schedule other people's appointments.

Alas, I skipped that class on data entry and catering at Smith.

I would be more angry if I had any hope that my previous tasks would be continued. But this gesture so clearly indicates that the last nine months of my work is disposable and anything but central to the goals of the office. At least I don't have to push against constant resistance as I choose whether executive directors eat butternut ravioli or baked cod during their meeting; the office and national network agree that events for people in power are a good thing. Sigh. Hopefully next year's VISTA leader will be more patient with the glacial pace of institutional change.

A few weeks ago, I started to lift weights at work to blow off steam. This morning, I came in to find two other colleagues, in their forties and sixties, respectively, pumping iron as they read through email. I like to think that we're readying for a change.

I do love when this blog becomes a utilitaria...

May 05, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I do love when this blog becomes a utilitarian bi-lateral communication method, ripping it from its place as a widely-read, open public blog and centering exactly where it should be, at our kitchen table in Eugene. Mom, I miss talking to you constantly about everything. I can't wait to see all of you at the end of May.

Providence is wet, for the good of my community garden plot. Several friends and their new partners came over for brunch- the best idea I've had in months. I had to stop downstairs, and didn't feel the least bit guilty asking my robed neighbors for a chair like it was a cup of flour. It reminded me what makes a community luminescent and connected. Borrowed chairs.

I just played Dark Tower

May 03, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I just played Dark Tower. I almost wet myself it was so exciting. This is the beginning of a 80's nostalgia gaming trip that I've accompanied Gregory on, including viewing related genre films like "the last starfighter." While this ties in neatly with my indie persona, these activities are in no way ironic for my gentleman friend. Next up: all of John Hughe's films.

Baby Kittens! Oh, they're beautiful

April 18, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Baby Kittens! Oh, they're beautiful.

Names I like:
Elijah
Moses
Jedediah

Or:
Pocket
Bucket
Cupful

I was probably twelve when I recorded over yo...

April 10, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I was probably twelve when I recorded over your Mistaken Identity tape. I hope you can forgive me.

I spent Saturday morning cleaning up the once...

April 07, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I spent Saturday morning cleaning up the once trashed empty lot, now community garden, in my neighborhood. I procured a big raised bed for the season, and am beginning to plot out my piece of dirt with vegetables and herbs. Like much of Oregon, Providence is in zone 7, so I'm hoping to stuff things in the ground soon.

I just watched this great video called The Story of Stuff, about where our stuff comes from, where it goes, and everything in between. Highly recommended!

I'm typing from my friend Jim and Heather's l...

April 01, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I'm typing from my friend Jim and Heather's living room in Minneapolis. Things are well, though no easy decision has surfaced about graduate schools. Both Minnesota and Brandeis are more full than I knew last week.

I was primarily interested in the University of Minnesota because of their impressive, asset-based and grassroots organizing partnerships with the Jane Addams School for Democracy. I got into the Jane Addams School when I was at Williams, and tried to visit today. Due to the blizzard, the Jane Addams school closed. Either it's an omen that I must come her for school to see my dream campus-community collaboration, or it's not meant to be.

One of the best things about being in a VISTA...

March 21, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

One of the best things about being in a VISTA corps, is, of course, making close personal and professional relationships. I simply can't facilitate certain workshops or work on projects without Carly, my previous VISTA co-leader. Half of my current projects are collaborations with her, or she advises me on their direction. Only recently did I realize what a rare gift our relationship was, when sharing one of our stories at a conference. I wanted to share this picture of us.

I brought some work home this weekend to fini...

March 16, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I brought some work home this weekend to finish the first draft of an article I'm writing on asset-based community development for our first ever national Campus Compact VISTA newsletter. I'm excited about the organizational structure of the newsletter, which is decentralized and has rotating editor positions. It only requires complete commitment on the part of the five committee members to take responsibility for their part of the newsletter; we'll see how it turns out.

I saw a FIRST regional robotics competition with Greg this Saturday. I think I was supposed to become a zealot after seeing one match, but I remain only moderately excited about robots. There is, of course, something interesting about a thousand high school kids dressed in matching outfits, taping their machines for battle. And I want to believe that those teams represent some fundamental societal shift to bring sexy back to science and technology. Alas, seeing white suburban geeks build robots seemed like the same old show, just a little more organized and with many more mascots that the traditional science fair. In short, I've failed as the girlfriend of a geek.

Jamie, the consummate evolutionary biologist

March 11, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Jamie, the consummate evolutionary biologist.

So, the web guy at work just decided to take a sweet job somewhere else. I don't blame him; working on a campus like Brown means free cookies every day. And I like cookies. But my job is an empty shell without him, and not only am I terrified that I'll quickly forget how to use a computer and revert to stamping letters on homemade collaged cards, but I don't know how to have fun without him. He is my office bowling buddy, my science fiction friend, my satirical confidant. Our web guy speaks truth to power... or at least mocks power in a way that makes me feel good about challenges I face. It's gonna be rough going without him.

Can one be "martyred" in molasses, really? S...

March 10, 2008 by Jamie in Sadie & Greg

Can one be "martyred" in molasses, really? Seems as if you are too weak to run from a wave of viscous sugar syrup, you may need to be picked from the heard anyway ;-)

I am sitting at home, wading through the emai...

March 10, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I am sitting at home, wading through the emails that are too pressing to leave in the withering sun of my inbox for another day. A national network of Campus Compact VISTA folks, so delicate in its beginnings, must be watered daily. Even if I have a cold, the revolution plows ahead.

Winter has finally begun it's strip-tease to Spring here in the northeast, shedding layers of salt and snow with a nice week of wind and rain. Providence is blessedly warmer than Williamstown ever was in March, although it is also much wetter. I spent Sunday in Boston, hunting down the plaque for the Great Mollasses Flood of the early 1900s and finding the small plastic marker thoroughly dissapointing. A proper plaque would have shown the hieght of the mollasses wave (40 feet!) or listed the names of those martyred (21 innocent victims, and uncounted numbers of livestock!). It's not even a part of the freedom trail; I plan to write a letter.

I am writing this between a retruitment and t...

March 07, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I am writing this between a retruitment and training break at the IMPACT student conference at Northeastern University in Boston. I, alas, continue to have a fever/cough/cold/gravel voice, but I think that gave me a devil-may-care edge in my last workshop on Asset-Based Community Development. My co-presenter and bff Carly Bruder was equally drained through the two hour presentation. During a small group section of the workshop, she leaned over and said, "let's just cut out the rest." And we did, but no one seemed to notice- it was as if we, practicing Asset-Based workshop facilitation, gave up control of the workshop to that participants, and they stepped up the the plate with great panache. I was astounded. Well, if I had any energy left, I would be astounded; I just facilitated the best training I've ever done, and I wasn't even conscious for it.

I was going to see Greg and his family this e...

March 02, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I was going to see Greg and his family this evening, taking care of a few stray birthdays with one dinner while they're all in Rhode Island to watch one of Greg's robot competition. However, Greg usually returns from these grueling competitions with circles under his eyes so big it's as if he scuffled with some of the rougher high school teams. His speech is often reduced to a melodic, closed-mouth mumbling, and his fingertips and knuckles are scraped from the rough metal edges of the robots. So instead of carrying the conversation for both of us, we're going to eat macaroni and cheese at home in a stupor-induced silence. No one told me growing up would be so tiring.

Work is fine. I was talking to a friend from Williamstown recently, and I really miss the simple collaborations of the Northern Berkshires. Even the occasional politics of the place seem quaint from here. I'm excited and eager to start graduate school in the fall.

And, of course, the inevitable graduate school update:
The University of Minnesota MPP program: accepted with full tuition and a graduate assistantship
Brandeis MPP program: accepted with a couple scholarships and they're matching of my education award
Waiting on: UMass Amherst, PSU

At this point, my graduate choice has nothing to do with you. I promise. I'm not accounting for your existence in my decision making. Money is the only thing that counts. However, if you give it to me, I may consider adding you into my accounting.

I just had my first eye exam in four years, a...

February 05, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I just had my first eye exam in four years, and my eye doctor increased my correction from -10 to -14. How could I have lost that kind of vision in four years? I'm never going to the eye doctor again. Plus they dilated my eyeballs, which remained catlike for four hours. Who could have known this morning that my eyes would need the largest correction my contact brand makes? Sigh.

However, I have some fun news: I'm going to train VISTAs in Tennessee next month! Teaching community organizing and rabble rousing professionally is so much fun.

Austin was wonderful, and my friends and coll...

February 02, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Austin was wonderful, and my friends and colleagues in Massachusetts gave me encouragement presents for every day of the meeting: a mix cd, a beautiful collection of stories from the StoryCorps Project called "Listening is an Act of Love," my own personal treat bag, and a set of tattoos called "I've got world peace in my pants." Here's me showing off my favorite one.

Mom, that sounds like a wonderful next step i...

January 17, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

Mom, that sounds like a wonderful next step in your life. I'm going to start sending my files off to smart women. Actually, I sort of am- I'm doing my best to have all my files online for the folks who come after me.

Currently, I'm eating and sleeping this Austin meeting; it kills me to think that I've spent four months on four days that will arrive in nine. It's ridiculous how I put my hopes in tiny things like bringing people together in the same hotel to talk to each other. My old supervisor would say that introducing people to each other is the most radical thing we can do... so either I'm about to bring on a brilliant revolution or tumble into civil war. Hey, it's not my job to define what kind of change we'll bring about. I'm just a VISTA.

I'm spending a beautiful Sunday morning finis...

January 13, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

I'm spending a beautiful Sunday morning finishing the agenda and briefing book for the VISTA meeting at the end of the month. Work has been fantastic and frantic as I iron out the final details for Austin. Tomorrow I'm heading out the Williamstown to facilitate a community partnership development workshop, then to Smith to be on a "women's narratives of success" panel. The coordinators of the panel are obvioulsy looking for alternative narratives of success, for when I let them know that I'm still hovering at the poverty line, they said that they wanted me anyway. Hey, I'll get fed and boarded at the Hotel Northampton, which is good enough for me!

The new year brought a cold snap to the ocean...

January 03, 2008 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg

The new year brought a cold snap to the ocean state, and I could just barely fight my way to work this morning. Fortunately, I still have Dick's Polish army jacket, lovingly re-lined by Seraph for my first New England winter at Smith five years ago. To think that I sent in my graduate school application to Minnesota yesterday. On a cheerier note, the mileage reimbursement rate has increased by two cents, so I'm planning a cross-country VISTA tour in my final months here. I'll keep you posted on my progress.