Isabel CoffeyDec 4, 20225 min readPerfection IncarnateIN GRAMMATICAL VERNACULAR, “PERFECT” MEANS “COMPLETE.” NOT “WITHOUT flaw, not “unimprovable.” When I teach the Perfect tense to my...
Isabel CoffeyJun 29, 20225 min readRereading Newton after My Second Year of TeachingThe scientific nature of the ordinary man Is to go on out and do the best you can. -John Prine, "Humidity Built the Snowman" (1995)...
Isabel CoffeyJan 10, 20212 min readThe Friday Before Finals12/11/2020 In this self-contained world we’ve created, I ebb and flow like a gill, stretching open to the environment of my submersion....
Isabel CoffeyMay 29, 20208 min readMAKING IT HOMEMARCH 2020: It rained three days and three nights before I began my move from Valparaiso, Indiana to Phoenix, Arizona. And before that,...
Isabel CoffeyMay 12, 20203 min readHome-Grown Science LessonDad is 6’ 3” and he has to lay, curved, to adjust the little telescope. He finds Venus with a marked reverence, then switches to a closer le
