Essays
Essay: Jerry-rigging — way things used to be
By Teddy Robertson Jul 2011
The Urban Dictionary defines jerry-rig as fixing something non-working in an unconventional way. Their etymology states that the term was created during World War II, a reference to the Germans who...Essay: Social networks — then and now
By Teddy Robertson Apr 2011
I am into Facebook. This past October when I got the urge to be social, I could not log on to the Facebook page.Panic.
How to find my login name, what was my password? I am locked out of...
Essay: Hidden places (Read at Ink Takes a Village night)
By Alan Matthews May 2010
Lately my job has put me in a lot of hidden places. I run computer cables both in construction and renovation projects. Cabling, be it copper or fiber optic, backbone or horizontal, goes through...Essay: Under the street light in February
By Jan Worth-Nelson Feb 2010
Walking out to the dark parking lot after yoga tonight, it's an intensely surreal moment.I saw my old red car waiting for me under the lights, the old car I leeched from my last marriage...
Essay: I think I’m beginning to understand
By Jan Worth-Nelson Feb 2010
I think I'm beginning to understand that life is simply like this— cycles of worry and doubt and disappointment punctuated by the considerable pleasures of daily life. It's just the way it...Essay: So much for my dream of professoriate
By Jan Worth-Nelson Feb 2010
When I was a freshman in college at Miami University in Ohio, I rushed a sorority and joined it — Delta Delta Delta — eventhough I didn't really "believe in" sororities, and often made fun of...Essay: The bread gun or you can raise a pacifist
By Jan Worth-Nelson Jan 2010
I was at the optometrist's office on an ordinary Tuesday morning waiting to get an errant lens put back in my glasses, and I ran into a man I know from work who was talking about his kids and...Essay: Duende such a common word
By Jan Worth-Nelson Nov 2007
So, Gary Custer made me take a reference to "duende," out of my latest East Village Magazine column draft. He said he didn't know what it was and my husband, kibbutzing in the background, said...Flickr Photos