I'm a University Lecturer in English and the author of a novel, The Secret of Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage 2002). My life is summed up by Rumi, who said: "My story gets told in various ways: a romance, a dirty joke, a war, a vacancy." Rumi's quote is the epigraph to Hurricanes. The purpose of this journal is to explore creativity and the writing life.
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Sunday, August 26, 2007
Today I bought new clothes
Today I bought new clothes. I hate shopping. I hate trying clothes on. Pushing and pulling the clothes over my tired body. I also hate spending money on clothes. I bought two pair of pants, four shirts, four pair of cotton socks, and three pair of cotton underwear. It cost $130.00. A hundred and thirty dollars just for cloth to drape around my body. Outrageous.
I used to love shopping but I have changed. I can't find anything of quality any more that lasts. I'm more fussy. Or more relaxed about who I am.
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