Strangers

When we came out of the bar in Iowa City, there were still twenty people on the other side of the street.  They were holding signs and chanting in front of the Old Capitol.  We had had nice cocktails at an upstairs bar.  We had participated in a round of applause for the bartender called […]

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Days 2/3 (Not two-thirds)

The important thing is that my teacher is nice.  You didn’t care about niceness, and then you do.  Then it’s really all that matters. Coffee and work, lunch and reading, class.  Day two I snagged some people to have dinner with– long, easy, witty, long-lost relations banter we had over wine and martinis and food […]

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