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General Insanity
In no particular order, over the past four months I have: been working with students who are trying to get into college (I’ll talk about why that is important in a bit), visited Fall River, started a new teaching job, gone on a few dates (one of which was particularly amazing), been visited by my aunt, uncle, and my first cousin from my dad’s side of the family, my cousins and great aunt on my dad’s side, and my first cousin from my mom’s side of the family, sprained my ankle and knee, spent time on the Santa Monica Pier, helped a friend plan her wedding, found out what my…
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is a man that I think just about every writer should respect regardless of their field of writing. I just sent him an email personally and it got me thinking about why he is an author that I adore and respect so much. Some of it has to do with the sheer volume and variety of his work. He’s written books, comics (he claims that calling him a graphic novelist makes him “feel like a hooker who has just been told she’s a ‘lady of the night’.”), films, and theatre. I mean, this is a man who is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of…