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Hi Deb, Josie, Joan, Cathy, and Valerie--
This morning I did Ellen Barrett's Barefoot Cardio (48 min.).
Deb, I have 3 more semesters of teaching, one semester's paid leave, then 125% of my salary as severance pay, which I plan to split up over two years for tax reasons. Basically, I can do anything I want after another 1 1/2 years of teaching. I'm off to Jacob's Pillow tomorrow to see Hubbard Street dance troupe, then out to dinner with ds, dh, and mil and fil. I plan on spending some time with ds on Sunday and Monday before he heads back to California.
Valerie, sorry to hear about family problems. It's always hard if it's long distance. I had to move my mom during the last few years of her life because it was just too hard to watch over her when she was in Minnesota and I was in Massachusetts. She really enjoyed watching her grandsons and all the sports they played, though, so it was a great move for her. I am giving a lecture at a conference in Cambridge. The whole conference is dedicated to Ted Hughes, who would have been 80 years old this year. He died in 1998, not long after publishing Birthday Letters, a book of poems about his marriage to Sylvia Plath which caused quite an uproar because it seemed to be finally telling his side of a story in which he had always been perceived as a villain. She committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30 and shortly after Hughes left her for another woman, who, incidentally, also committed suicide in 1969 when it became clear that he would never marry her. Unlike Plath, who carefully protected her son and daughter (a 2 1/2 year old daughter and year-old son) from the gas she killed herself with, the other woman also killed her daughter by Hughes. Hughes was England's poet laureate from 1984 until his death.
Cathy, hope you find a beautiful piece of land!
Hi to Josie and Joan!
This morning I did Ellen Barrett's Barefoot Cardio (48 min.).
Deb, I have 3 more semesters of teaching, one semester's paid leave, then 125% of my salary as severance pay, which I plan to split up over two years for tax reasons. Basically, I can do anything I want after another 1 1/2 years of teaching. I'm off to Jacob's Pillow tomorrow to see Hubbard Street dance troupe, then out to dinner with ds, dh, and mil and fil. I plan on spending some time with ds on Sunday and Monday before he heads back to California.
Valerie, sorry to hear about family problems. It's always hard if it's long distance. I had to move my mom during the last few years of her life because it was just too hard to watch over her when she was in Minnesota and I was in Massachusetts. She really enjoyed watching her grandsons and all the sports they played, though, so it was a great move for her. I am giving a lecture at a conference in Cambridge. The whole conference is dedicated to Ted Hughes, who would have been 80 years old this year. He died in 1998, not long after publishing Birthday Letters, a book of poems about his marriage to Sylvia Plath which caused quite an uproar because it seemed to be finally telling his side of a story in which he had always been perceived as a villain. She committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30 and shortly after Hughes left her for another woman, who, incidentally, also committed suicide in 1969 when it became clear that he would never marry her. Unlike Plath, who carefully protected her son and daughter (a 2 1/2 year old daughter and year-old son) from the gas she killed herself with, the other woman also killed her daughter by Hughes. Hughes was England's poet laureate from 1984 until his death.
Cathy, hope you find a beautiful piece of land!
Hi to Josie and Joan!
