over breakfast

writing  //  a historical/biographical criticism of Mary Hays's The Victim of Prejudice, published 1799 as one of the first feminist novels.

watching  //  "Les émotifs anonymes"/"Romantics Anonymous" directed by Jean-Pierre Améris. It's a French movie with English subtitles and bursting with romantic comedy warmth.

reading  //  Robert Kendall's White Teacher in a Black School, a nonfiction telling of the author's experiences during two years of teaching in a public high school in Los Angeles in the 1960s.

thinking  //  about how to explain my desire to teach in an urban school.

waiting for  //  an opportunity to sail.